In a message dated 9/5/98 9:51:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> The partially filled supers have
>  been on a hive over the inner cover and an empty super for several weeks
>  but the bees have not cleaned them out.  I need to medicate the hive so I
>  am wondering if I can store them with my empty supers, protected by PDB,
>  and put them back on the hives in the spring.
 
    Why do you need PDB anyway?  If you store them in unheated storage, the
wax moth activity will be nearly zero, unless you bring in a badly infested
super with plenty of webbing already in place to insulate the wax moth larvae.
 
    Wax moths are only a problem when comb is stored in the warm season, or in
heated storage areas.  Now mice are a different story, at least in my storage
sheds.......
 
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