Sid Pullinger wrote:
 
> <<<<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.
 
Reply to Sid PullingerI am in Colorado usa and have been reading
watching and learning for two years now
which makes me a beginer..This Bee-L is a gold mine to me.I can only
find so much in
the books.
I was conserned that to build come from foundation would be to much work
for a package of bees and was glad to get this extraced moth comb..Maby
I am under estemating the bees ability to
build comb.
I cleaned the comb with an air compresser  before I put it in the boxes.
A lot of time spent..
Would like to here more about the bees ableilty to move in and build
up..
I started with one hive this way last year and I now have ten.
Someone on Bee-L said  I am working to hard at it !
                               Thanks Lawrence Cooke
 
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