>You can take the dead and place the boxes below your strong colines and they >will clean them up were you can extract and store them with moth crystals. By >placing them below at least most of the dead naterial will not be pulled >across your good combs. I would advise that at the very least you dust with >Terramyacin during the clean up as a preventative. > >Dean Brreaux >Hybri-Bees >11140 Fernway Lane >Dade City Florida 33525 >352-521-0164 Thanks for the tip Dean. It sure is no fun cleaning out the dead, moldy brood chambers, but I'm making progress; they are really piling up. Fortunately, the number of soggy/leaky/moldy brood combs is not too bad; I'm consolidating these together and will get them to the strong colonies ASAP. Maybe I'll get lucky and the local beekeepers will let their bees swarm for me... I was also informed about CERTAN which is a moth-proofing compound (seems to me it might be bacterial); may try that but the best recourse is to get bees back on the combs to clean them up, I'm convinced. Regards, Joel