steve_e
House Bee
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2010
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- Location
- East Sussex
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3
Hi -
Here's another in an apparently endless series of daft questions:
I have some wax odds and ends which were mainly scraped off the surface of the honey buckets a few days after it was extracted (no filter used during extraction). I've attached a photo to give you an idea - it's all sticky with mixed in honey and has also some more solid wax from the cappings which were heated in a friends wax extractor.
I also have a bag of wax comb bits that I just collected through the season during inspections when the bees had been making wild comb where they didn't ought to have...
What is the best way to sort out this wax? Should I wash it all through to get rid of as much honey as possible, then heat it? Or heat it first, let it cool and then separate the two? Should I mix the old wax wild comb bits in with the other stuff, which is from cappings? (I've noticed just now that this is now playing host to a fair few moths).
If heating it (I don't have any dedicated heaters) what kind of temperature is best - would the warming oven of an aga be a good thing or not?
Sorry, lots of questions in one really, as always seems to happen when I start thinking about bees!
Here's another in an apparently endless series of daft questions:
I have some wax odds and ends which were mainly scraped off the surface of the honey buckets a few days after it was extracted (no filter used during extraction). I've attached a photo to give you an idea - it's all sticky with mixed in honey and has also some more solid wax from the cappings which were heated in a friends wax extractor.
I also have a bag of wax comb bits that I just collected through the season during inspections when the bees had been making wild comb where they didn't ought to have...
What is the best way to sort out this wax? Should I wash it all through to get rid of as much honey as possible, then heat it? Or heat it first, let it cool and then separate the two? Should I mix the old wax wild comb bits in with the other stuff, which is from cappings? (I've noticed just now that this is now playing host to a fair few moths).
If heating it (I don't have any dedicated heaters) what kind of temperature is best - would the warming oven of an aga be a good thing or not?
Sorry, lots of questions in one really, as always seems to happen when I start thinking about bees!