Along the same subject, I have bees in nine and ten frame supers that are drawing the comb out way to far. The bees are drawing the wax out where the next frame cannot be drawn. I basically have to pull two frames out to get the one drawn frame out. I am using wax foundation on wooden frames. I have tried taking out the "freak" comb and replacing it with already drawn comb and the bees will draw the comb out even futher where ever they run into undrawn foundation. The bees seem to want to only work on the drawn comb frames or will only draw one frame of foundation at a time and are getting over kill on the depth of the wax. We have been very dry in SW Oklahoma this year, could this be part of the problem? I have noticed larger than normal amounts of bees collecting water. A lot more bees than collecting pollen. Any comments would be appreciated. Richard Barnes [log in to unmask]