James Fischer wrote:
> The "problem" isn't the wax itself as much as the nooks and crannies
> where gunk can collect, so one should not speak just about the comb.
> The frames and boxes also need to be "sterilized",
When we hear of those rotating foundation, I wonder how many also add 
new frames and boxes. My boxes get re-painted and go back in service 
when needed. The frames get re-used unless in bad shape.
 
But with the frames and boxes you also have propolis and its action, so 
how might it fit in? Nice research project.

Scheduled change of foundation is not new and is in just about every bee 
book out there, but not practiced by most of us who carry around vice 
grips. I know I had some of my best success when I 'trialed' different 
foundation in my colonies (except plastic). I attributed it to the 
foundation (5.0) but the real success may just have been that it was new 
and all the problems went out with the old.

Yes, I am now rotating foundation and some frames and boxes.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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