>I opened one of my supers today, to discover a royal mess! The comb and
>honey collapsed, making a sticky oozing mess all over the inner cover.
>There is not one single frame that has comb intact. (I had the inner cover
>with one-way exit in place to clear the super of bees.) There are dead bees
>mixed in with this mess.
Yeeck! what a mess! I would dump the whole mess into a hive top feeder and
let the bees clean it up. Any other way is real messy.
Did you try clearing the bees on a hot day? When I 'do' cut comb I
don't use a clearer board, just brush the bees off.
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