> Allen, for us bee-ginners, can you shed any light on what it is that you do
> to preclude the kinds of problems George mentions? I'm going to be
> installing two packages this evening and had planned to use a mixture of
> drawn comb and foundation, figuring that the queen could get to laying right
> away in the drawn comb while the bees were working on drawing out the
> foundation.

Obviously, I'm not Allen,  but I thought I would put in my two cents
worth.
When using foundation and drawn comb together, you have two choices -
interleave the foundation with the drawn comb or place each separately.
I cannot give citations but I remember reading of studies in Europe a
few years back dealing with this question. They found that best results
came from putting all the foundation together and separately putting all
the drawn comb together.

In the past I have had success installing bees on drawn comb, with
foundation directly above in the second hive body.

Dick Bonney
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