Storing brood comb and extracted comb:
     1. If Apistan is put on the hive in late summer and again in early
spring, storing extracting supers on the hive may not be a good idea.
     2. If combs are put in a freezer to kill wax moth eggs and larvae,
should the wooden box supers be put in as well? Do moths lay eggs in the
supers as well as on frames of comb?
         Do moths lay eggs on cracks on the outside of a stack of stored
supers?  If so, they need more than just a freeze to protect them into
the next spring.
    3. I use paradichlorobenzene, too, but isn't the gas from the
crystals heavier than air?  I put the supers _in_ a big bag and put the
crystals on top of the (covered) stacks.  (Store comb in a place that
gets cold if possible, not in a house or cellar.  Cold weather stops the
wax moths; a cellar just seems to encourage them! Para crystals are not
needed during freezing weather.)
    4. I used to try to have the bees clean up the extracted supers by
putting them back onto the hive.  But storing them, under para crystals,
is a lot less work, and the bees clean them up the next spring.
 
     I would like to hear from someone who has stored comb and protected
it from wax moths by letting light deter the moth larvae. (Stacking them
so that light can get in top and bottom of stack)
Tim
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Tim Sterrett
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(southeastern) Pennsylvania, USA