When doing a cutout, there is usually a variety of brood, honey, and pollen. Naturally it is deserible to save as much of each as possible. But with the prospect of saving SBH along with these certainly is not desirable. My question is, what is the best solutation short of scrapping the comb with the honey, pollen and brood, is there of reducing the numbers of beetles along with the new bees? Will exposing the "newly" cut comb from the cutout in the sunlight, while finishing the rest of the cut out run the beetles away? I realize that melting all wax will at least save the wax but this is not something that I would not prefer to do. And even if i wanted to melt all, there would still be the chance that some of the SHB would escape from the "wax bucket' when the top is removed. Rubber banding the good stuff in frames is much more preferred. Thanks, Phillip Hall