I think with this "early" spring and things are blooming... I have pulled off the feeder and I did spray two of the frames and of course they were plastic. The rest are no foundation... no point in spraying... what I understand if a flow is going you don't need to do much else than watch timing for adding supers and watch for swarming... it's great because they are building comb quickly and I don't think HBH should be used when you add supers for honey.
This is an unusual spring for sure but I'm treating this as late April in SC. Hope we don't get a late freeze that has happened in the past.. I think it would cause a real problem for everything.
I thought the reason for putting beeswax coating on the foundation was to stimulate comb draw...
I just heard someone say the sugar syrup spray... helped... how woud I know if it did or did not... bees in the natural don't have plastic bottles with sugar water to spray.... I'm thinking the best thing is to leave them alone as much as possible. Was just curious about something that sounded a little strange to me. Thanks for the replies, riverhawk, Michael, Finski...