> 
> >   Bees tend to trans-locate wax on a regular basis.
> 
> Heard of someone here in Australia many years ago who had some coloured
> foundation for candles.  Put one in a frame and found that the coloured
> wax was shifted off the foundation base and used in the cell walls.

I assume it is not to me you refer.  However I have done such a thing in the
form of a coloured shape of Australia.  

We refer to bees 'drawing' foundation and this is just what it looked like.
The walls were still coloured as if the edges of the imprint was 'drawn',
but a lighter shade than the original coloured foundation.  I assumed that
there was some new wax added.  Although I did not look for it I saw no
evidence that coloured wax being moved elsewhere.

Geoff Manning 

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