Mason Harris wrote: > I worked my bees yesterday and found something I have not seen > before. I use permadent, plastic foundation in my hives. I added upper > brood chambers about two weeks ago and opened the hives yesterday. In two > of the hives I found the foundation undrawn in the central upper brood > chamber but the ladies had drawn "wild comb" between the frames of > foundation instead. They connected it to the undrawn foundation in spots and > left "passages" on the face of the foundation they could walk through. It was > like sheets of wild comb between the frames that covered about 1/2 the > frame. Other frames of the BC were being drawn out normally. Hi Mason, Some colonies just want to build comb the wrong way, I belive it's something genetic. I have a few of those every year making a mess in my boxes. Guess you'll have to keep on removing that extra comb until the frames are drawn properly. -- Regards P-O Gustafsson, Sweden [log in to unmask] http://www.kuai.se/~beeman/