> However, I've toyed with the idea for some time, since the top combs
> experience thermal stress both summer and winter.

I visited a commercial beek out west and it surprised me that he had some 
darker tops which make for hot hot up top.
Of course white or "shiny" is best. Easily discernible by spots of melted 
wax.
John Horton
N alabama 

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