Doing some reading on a wet day When people put out bait hive many say to put in old comb. What stops this getting wax moth? Or is there a shelf life to his long it can be out?
The gap is not significant representing at most the first day of egg laying in their new "home" but removes the majority of Varroa that have come with the swarm.
Doing some reading on a wet day When people put out bait hive many say to put in old comb. What stops this getting wax moth? Or is there a shelf life to his long it can be out?
Beginners don't have old comb.
I had no spare drawn comb last year however what i did have was a golf ball size amount of wax and propolis what i had scraped from the top bars during inspections, i put two new frames of foundation in and scattered the wax and propolis around inside the Nuc which caught a swarm not long after setting it up.Beginners don't have old comb.
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