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Sid Pullinger <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 22 Jul 1997 02:47:07 -0400
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<<<<I am using used Brood boxes and frames that have some wax moth
damage.My three pound bees have cleaned and worked them into to good
shape but they are doing little to the outside ones so I moved them in
two frames to get them to work them too. Is this a waist of time or is
frame shuffling common practice.>>>>>
Many beginners make the mistake of putting a small colony of bees into a
large brood chamber.  If you are using brood combs that have already been 
bred in (cocoons and pollen present), unless those combs are covered with 
bees the wax moths will move in and destroy them.  A small package should 
not be given more combs than it can cover.  Note that a newly established 
package  will not start to increase until three weeks later when the first
new bees emerge. I also question the wisdom of starting a new colony on wax
moth damaged combs.  There may well be eggs and larvae present.  Far wiser
to  start with new foundation or clean combs.     Sid P.
 
 
  

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