In a message dated 4/1/99 8:32:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
writes:
> As a new BeeKeeper, I purchased all my hives with Pierco plastic frames.
> Being so new, I don't have any drawn out foundations. I am worried when I
> get my new bees and place them in a box with 10 new Pierco frames they
won't
> take to them. I have heard to spray all the frames with sugar water,
> however I am not convenced that this is going to work. Can anyone offer me
> any comfort that going this method is going to work! Or... am I going to
> learn a lesson the hardway?
A hobby beekeeper who got a 5-frame nuc from me put them in with 5 plastic
frames. Three times they started building the comb in between the frames
rather than on them. He finally took some melted beeswax and brushed it on
with a small paintbrush. Then they got right on them and all was okay.
[log in to unmask] Dave Green Hemingway, SC USA
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