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"Lesli St. Clair" <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:17:04 -0400
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  Some people refer to DURAGILT as plastic.  In my opinion
> DURAGILT
> should be BARRED from production - it is JUNK.  If anything damages the wax
> covering of the plastic sheet underneath the wax, there is no way known to
> mankind
> to get the bees to rebuild on that location.

Not that I'm doubting you, but why? (Yes, I'm new also!). I have wired
wax, duragilt, plasticell, and pierco because I bought nucs to start
this year, and there was quite a variety of frames.

So if Duragilt is plastic coarted with beeswax, why do the bees treat it
differently from any other plastic foundation?

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Lesli St. Clair
Systems Administrator, Ithaca College
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