At 05:27 AM 6/14/96 +0000, you wrote:
><<We're beginners at all this.  We installed our bees into their hive
>successfully, but we are having a problem with the workers bridging between
>the top bars and hanging a comb from it between the frames. >>>
>When you introduce a super with all foundation  the gap between the sheets
>is so wide the bees are tempted to draw out a comb between them. The remedy
>is simple.   If you want good super combs always interleave the foundation
>with drawn combs, five and five.  In this way the gap is narrowed and the
>bees will behave.  This is even more important for good brood combs.  Never
>introduce two sheets of foundation side by side, except, perhaps, in the
>case of swarms.              Sid P.
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>
 
This assumes that you have drawn comb to intersperse with your foundation.
I put on complete supers of foundation all the time.  Sometimes for chunk
honey and sometimes to get new comb drawn.  When I put on foundation,  I put
in 9 frames if I'm going to extract it and 10 if I am making chunk honey.  I
hardly ever have a problem as long as the foundation is straight. I have
seen some bridging but it is just that.  They don't put honey in it if there
is room to put it somewhere else.  They will occasionally put nectar in it
temporarily and move it as new comb becomes available.  If you make sure
that the foundation is straight and the bees don't draw it evenly, the hot
knife fixes that the first time the comb is extracted.
 
Frank Humphrey
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