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- Mar 27, 2012
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- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 5
I've caught two moderate-size swarms in the last fortnight and placed each in a 6-frame poly-nuc with OMF furnished with foundation. I checked progress several days later and in both nucs found that the foundation had sagged and twisted so that they had fused with their neighbours resulting in the newly drawn comb being a right jumbly mess.
The nucs are in full sun and the wax was very soft. Presumably a case of overheating? - but I've not had trouble with foundation melting in poly-supers on full size hives
The nucs are in full sun and the wax was very soft. Presumably a case of overheating? - but I've not had trouble with foundation melting in poly-supers on full size hives