Wax Moth Symptoms
 
        Wax Worms do not kill bees, they just take over weak colonies
 
        A wax moth will lay eggs which evolve into wax larve which eats,
honey, pollen, comb and equipment.
 
        Wax Worms are found in weak hives and stored combs.
 
Treatment for Active HIves:
 
        Use a 2 liter plastic drink bottle with a one inch diameter hole
cut on the curve toward the top of the bottle.
 
        Mix one cup grandulated sugar, one cup vinegar, one whole banana
peeling and eight cups of water.
 
        Hang this bottle in the beeyard year round.  Replace as needed.
Use one bottle for every four hives.
 
Treatment for stored hives:
 
        Place an inverted hive top in a storage area.
 
        Place ten supers or less in the inverted top.  Seal the joints
between the supers.
 
        Place paramoth chemicals on the top super and place a queen
excluder on the top hive and cover with a hive top.  Keep checking to
replace chemicals.  About 1 months before honey flow remove chemicals
and air out supers.
 
        A second method is to stack supers cross each other and keep well
ventilated and dry.  I used the second method this year and no problem
with wax moths in the stored comb.
 
        The methos of control was found in old edition of a American Bee
Journal and discussed at our monthly meetings.
 
        It was nice to share our successful techniques
        Ron Taylor
        President of South Carolina and Colleton County Beekeepers.
        Route 2 Box 669
        Cottageville SC 29435
        803-835-2482