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> From: KEN LAWRENCE <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Frames
> Date: Monday, March 03, 1997 10:05 PM
>
> Ted Fischer wrote:
> >
> > KEN LAWRENCE wrote:
> > >
> > > Looking for some ideas for storing my super frames at the end of the
> > > honey season.
> >
> > First of all, I'm wondering why you would want to do this.
> >
> > Ted Fischer
> > Dexter, Michigan, USA
>
>         I had read that if combs were stored out in the open there would
> be less chance of waxmoths.  Maybe I need to quit reading as each time I
> seem to get myself into trouble.  (Wintergreen Oils and now Combs stored
> in the open light)
>                 Thanks for all the input I have received.  The old man
> is still trying to learn.
>
>                                         Ken Lawrence
 
I store all my unused frames with wax under an open shead.  The supers are
filled with frames and the spare frames are suspended from dowl rods fitted
into the rafters.
I have been doing this for some years now and I have never had any wax
worms.  I leave spaces for air  in the supers and the bees clean up any
honey that is left.  Ants clean up any crystalized honey that the bees can'
get out.  As long as there is light and air circulaion, wax worms will not
attack the combs.
 
Frank & Phronsie Humphrey
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