Along the same subject, I have bees in nine and ten frame supers that are
drawing the comb out way to far.  The bees are drawing the wax out where the
next frame cannot be drawn.  I basically have to pull two frames out to get
the one drawn frame out.  I am using wax foundation on wooden frames.  I
have tried taking out the "freak" comb and replacing it with already drawn
comb and the bees will draw the comb out even futher where ever they run
into undrawn foundation.  The bees seem to want to only work on the drawn
comb frames or will only draw one frame of foundation at a time and are
getting over kill on the depth of the wax.   We have been very dry in SW
Oklahoma this year, could this be part of the problem?  I have noticed
larger than normal amounts of bees collecting water.  A lot more bees than
collecting pollen.
 
Any comments would be appreciated.
 
Richard Barnes
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