>I get a chuckle out of Allen's views and his supposed superior way of keeping bees. >We scrape our honey supers and dead outs every spring before the season starts, >sorting comb, introducing new comb, but we also scrape the bottom and top bars every >time we break the hive down, Seems like a lot of work, and a good deal of lost honey (due to the overhead of making the new wax) for what seems like about 60 hours of burr-free frames. I like to scrape out any burr comb that has drone cells in it to remove any resident Varroa when I find them. When I recently had to go back into a hive that I had cleaned up five days prior I found the new comb already in place.