At 11:04 AM 8/22/03 +0100, you wrote:
>Presumably the method cuts out the need to flood the colony with sugar
>syrup to force
>it onto the plastic , which is the practice that makes me worry about the
>purity of the final honey.

It certainly seems to.  They still are more reluctant to draw foundation
that to fill already drawn foundation as I would expect, but they seem to
draw the plastic with the extra coat faster and more readily.  It's pretty
apparent that they shape the extra wax to form cell wall  (I intended to
try a frame or two with food coloring just to see for sure, but didn't get
around to it).  I got several supers with partially drawn foundation (1/4
deep or so) even though they obviously didn't need the room as they had no
nectar or honey in them.  To help draw them up into the super I do try to
place a frame of drawn comb in the middle of the box (and one on each side
if I have enough).  I probably painted on 3-4 pounds of wax per 100 sheets
of foundation.

-Tim

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