Vivian Donahue wrote: > > What I do to clean up my cappings is put them out for the bees to clean up. ***************** 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 -- Tim Sterrett [log in to unmask] (southeastern) Pennsylvania, USA 40.0 N 75.5 W