Thanks Chris, > What's the cost of a queen excluder, the use of which would largely eliminate such problems? Unfortunately queen excluders have no affect. The wax moth eggs are in the super. Without bees in the super to control the wax moths, the wax moths take over. Dave M. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm