- Joined
- Jun 17, 2013
- Messages
- 51
- Reaction score
- 6
- Location
- Essex
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- From 4 last year to 11 this year
Morning
I am in my second year and have two hives one of which is filling supers at a good rate. I have extracted one super this week and will be giving it back to the hive to clean up and repair, I also have all the capping's which I have seen people in our association put in a feeder that bees can have access to and they clean up the capping's too, my question is do the bees recycle wax, would they use old wax to repair the super or do they just discard it and produce new? I have read on the net that some people have seen recycling and wondered if anyone else had seen this.
My supers wax frames are damaged quiet a bit while i was getting the hang of the uncapping knife, the kitchen looked worse at the end though, the kids still stick to the surfaces!!
I am in my second year and have two hives one of which is filling supers at a good rate. I have extracted one super this week and will be giving it back to the hive to clean up and repair, I also have all the capping's which I have seen people in our association put in a feeder that bees can have access to and they clean up the capping's too, my question is do the bees recycle wax, would they use old wax to repair the super or do they just discard it and produce new? I have read on the net that some people have seen recycling and wondered if anyone else had seen this.
My supers wax frames are damaged quiet a bit while i was getting the hang of the uncapping knife, the kitchen looked worse at the end though, the kids still stick to the surfaces!!