Vivian Donahue wrote:
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> What I do to clean up my cappings is put them out for the bees to clean up.
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   This may encourage frantic bees to bother human neighbors and to rob
out less strong bee colonies.
   I have put cappings in an empty hive body on top of an inner cover
and under an outer cover for a hive to sort through.
   The hive has to be relatively well sealed at the top so the bees can
defend their home from bees that will enter to get at the cappings and
then rob out the colony.
   Bees given cappings may draw out comb in the empty hive body and this
makes a bigger problem for the beekeeper.
Tim
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