Hi Bills and all


On 14-Apr-13, at 8:48 AM, Bill Greenrose wrote:

>>  I also hate the way they stick together top to bottom when  
>> >separating hive bodies.

I agree especially when a couple of plastic frames end up mixed with  
wax frames due to being moved when making nucs.  I do, however, find  
that if there's brood in a mixed box, it is always on the plastic  
frames first.

We don't have SHB yet although they are in SW Ontario.  Do the  
grooves in various places on plastic frames provide hiding places for  
SHB???

Wiring frames for wax foundation is a pain and I stopped doing it  
several years ago.  I use thick wax foundation in wood frames with  
groves top and bottom and push bobbie pins(hair pins) through the  
holes in the end bars to secure the foundation.  Last year I was  
forced to buy plastic foundation, for the first time, because my  
supplier's wax foundation was too thin.  I have no complaints about  
plastic foundation yet, and like the way it fits into the frames.  I  
am sticking with wax in my honey supers however.

> Now that pollen is coming in and the bees are building up nicely  
> (despite getting another inch of snow Friday).

No pollen yet but maybe tomorrow 16C(61F) and sunny.  Instead of  
Bill's snow we got ice rain Friday which left us without hydro for 50  
hours.  The broken trees and limbs, that fell to the ground with the  
weight of the ice, gave us a close-up look at maple flowers but also  
made a mess of the hydro lines.

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

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