> What I found was that the bees just seemed to detest working the pierco,
> although they were waxed, and the boxes were baited with a centre and two
> outside combs (I had no more drawn comb available,  I believe last year I
> had five per box -- another difference).  I had LOTS of drone comb
> bridging the combs, and I even had complete skinny combs built in between
> two pierco frames in places where the frames were slightly apart ( and I
> was using ten frame boxes).
 
It is truly odd how the results vary from area to area and person to
person.  I was out today again and looked in probably 100 supers.  I don't
recall seeing *any* burr or brace comb on Pierco frames.  And we have
variously jammed them into 10 frame boxes and scattered them into 8 frame
spaced boxes -- and yet they are all being drawn nicely.  So far.
 
Granted, half of the new frames were still untouched, but that was in
supers the bees are not yet working much.  Wherever they were working a
box, I could see whitening on the bases of the black Pierco foundation.
 
Maybe the fact that the frames were only made and waxed a coupla weeks ago
makes the difference.  Or maybe black _is_ better.
 
Allen
 
PS:  When I titled this thread, I wasn't meaning to slight Permadent.  I
wa just delighted with the Pierco.  Permadent *is* great stuff.  1000X
better than wax.  And I may well go back to it again.  We'll see.
 
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