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Bill Huhman <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 22 Jul 2003 04:25:30 -0400
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An interesting observation I made recently:  I was making some temporary
splits into nuc boxes, but was short on deep foundation.  I took some extra
unwired drone foundation I had, cut it into strips, and anchored it to the
top bar of standard deep frames.

<<SNIP>>

I'm interested to see how well they draw comb without foundation in standard
frames.

Anyone else try this?

Todd.


I'm a 4th-year beekeeper in central Ohio with 9 hives this year...first time
posting to this forum. FWIW I routinely cut comb honey foundation in strips
and insert in medium frames for the bees to draw out for cut-comb honey with
good success. Generally I intersperse the strips between drawn frames to
keep things in order, but currently I've got 4 frames with strips together
and they're doing fine. The bees often seem to prefer working these strips
in a heavy flow to either full-size foundation or dry, drawn combs. To me
the resulting honey can't be beat. The only downside with doing this
directly above the broodnest without an excluder is that they tend to build
drone comb and the queen will pop up and fill them with drones, but that's
manageable. If I put the strips in an upper super, they build the smaller
cells and fill with honey.

Thanks to all the folks posting on here. Your information and tips have
helped me a lot, as well as providing a chuckle now and then. People do read
and try what y'all are debating.

Bill Huhman (it's WHO-mun...some would suggest I'm barely human, but we
don't talk about that)

Central Ohio, by way of Missouri and Nebraska

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