Need some help here. I keep reading on this list that those who store 
their supers open have no problem with wax moth. But neither do I since 
wax moth only bothers with brood supers. (We tend to use "supers" 
exclusively for honey supers.)

I can get away with storing brood supers open over one winter but not 
necessarily one summer. If I do, even in Maine, I will eventually get 
wax moth damage. So do those who store brood supers open over more than 
a season have no wax moth damage? I think that the time they are not in 
use has more to do with it than method of storage. Even wax moths have a 
life cycle that would have to be matched with availability of empty 
brood comb.

I do not like to store my honey supers open since it only encourages 
robbing. Lots on this in the archives.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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