> Even in underpopulated hives, empty boxes of comb with pollen and cocoons, 
> we simply don't see them. 

Again, thanks to those who have taken the time to write.

I am particularly worried about unoccupied brood chambers in storage for a season.

So far, I am hearing they are not a worry, so this puzzles me a bit.  Why to the beetles
head for even weak occupied colonies, and equipment from which the bees have 
been recenty evicted, as in supers for extracting , but seemingly ignore similar equipment 
without bees or recent bee occupation?  This somehow does not make sense, or is what 
I have heard here so far, just part of the story?

Has anyone on this list had unoccupied brood chambers in storage slimed?

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