Oh foundationless ones! Help with getting worker comb built

[TryingToLetThemBee]

I'm talking about your frames, not your skills (never stopped anyone around here, least of all me...)

So I can get beautiful drone comb drawn on a bare frame (great for honey supers-I only use DN4 frames-but less good for brood). Worker-foundation starter strips just get gnawed, so I capitulate and put in foundation, that is then immediately drawn.

What trick am I missing to get worker comb drawn without foundation? It seems like a careful triangular way strip along the groove of the upper bar is going to lead to drone brood, and I have not needed it it anyway.

 

[Dishmop]

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[Tom Bick]

The bees in a natural situation without any foundation will on average have approx 20% drone comb. So if you introduce only a couple of frames without foundation the bees will build a high concentration of drone comb in an attempt to get up to the 20% mark.

 

[Ely]

I have added two frames of foundationless frames in a super today due to not being organised and having no foundation in stock. I'm interested to see whether they will build drone comb or fill with honey. No excluder

 

[madasafish]

My bees in some hives are busy raising drones and in others, workers.. I RECKON IT'S THE LEYLINES...