>Here in Natick MA (42.27861, -71.35464) one of my 2 hives has had a fantastic spring.  They filled 5 shallow honey supers and then I ran out of equipment (thank you wax moths) so I decided to extract.

Happy to hear you had a good surplus!
Had a good early flow here in SW Pa also.
But a miserable season for swarms 
and cutouts.

I was wondering about the wax moth 
damage, when did it occur?

If its storage, try stagger stacking,
ventilating, and if possible store 
equipment with 8 frames spaced 
out in a 10 frame hive.  This hinders 
waxmoth from spreading quickly, 
reduces damage, and aids in the ability
to inspect periodically during storage 
for waxworm. 

Waxmoth is a bigger problem nowadays
due to the deadouts which are the only
consistency in beekeeping anymore. 

This season, I had good surplus from the 
mature colonies.  But young colonies 
from last year all perished over winter
due to depletion of stores, forage issues
and perhaps cluster winter comb transition 
problems.

I usually winter young colonies in singles,
due to the shortage of equipment.  But this
season, I supered all my singles and will 
winter them that way, partly to protect
my unused supers from waxmoth, and also to 
aid in successful wintering of these young 
colonies.

Joe Waggle
SW Pennsylvania
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