Pope Pius IX
New Bee
Hello everyone, probably a beginners question but mods can move if not!
I spent today extracting honey from the top super frames of my hive of sometimes tetchy bees. Went very well, no stings, lots of honey, but....
...having put the super frames through the extractor, many of them are now basically frames with a jumble of wax and wire on them in shapes that no self respecting colony would ever allow, even if they were sort-of weird Picasso style bees. The frames can obviously be reused and at the moment are dripping residual honey into a sieve.
My question is, what should I do with them? What should I do with the wax? Do I just rip it all out and replace with new foundation? Should I put a bit of beeswax up today in a line so they can go from that? And did I do something wrong during the extraction process, and should this really not have happened at all?!
I mean, up to a point it’s all fine because I got what I wanted...but still...
Thanks in advance!
I spent today extracting honey from the top super frames of my hive of sometimes tetchy bees. Went very well, no stings, lots of honey, but....
...having put the super frames through the extractor, many of them are now basically frames with a jumble of wax and wire on them in shapes that no self respecting colony would ever allow, even if they were sort-of weird Picasso style bees. The frames can obviously be reused and at the moment are dripping residual honey into a sieve.
My question is, what should I do with them? What should I do with the wax? Do I just rip it all out and replace with new foundation? Should I put a bit of beeswax up today in a line so they can go from that? And did I do something wrong during the extraction process, and should this really not have happened at all?!
I mean, up to a point it’s all fine because I got what I wanted...but still...
Thanks in advance!