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Rip Bechmann <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 9 Oct 2005 07:21:41 -0400
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>>>Bob Harrison writes:
I say burn the wax and not recycle<<<

Dee A. Lusby replies;

>>>Bull!.... <<<  etc., etcetera.

(1) There is a way to recycle and burn that wax at the same time, it's
called making candles.

(2) Do you require so much foundation that your output of capping wax is
unable to meet your needs?  I find it hard to believe that the "raw
material", for your foundation production available. is so limited that
you need to co mingle those few diseased frames with the cappings from
900+ colonies.

(3) The whole discussion of wether AFB spores are "killed" or only
"deactivated" by high tempertures becomes academic and irrelevant under
the scenarios proposed in (1) and (2) above.

All this evades the accumulated environmemtal "baggage" that the repeated
recycling of the same comb wax presents to the "suitibility /
advisiblity" of using it for foundation wax.  One has to wonder how "old"
and what the wax from ">>> us old beekeeping families<<<" might contain,
or would we rather not know?

Rip

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