Hi All,
I was thinking of how best to process the old brood comb.
The wax out of it doesn't seem to separate easily.
I had a thought that if I mixed it with very thick sugar syrup (10 parts sugar, 1 part slump gum) to make soft bee candy then the wax could be set into the sugar a kind of emulsion (i.e. in tiny pieces as the sugar would set at around wax melting point) then maybe the bees would reuse it. Also the slump gum would attract the bees to the candy.
The candy would go about 90 degrees or so for 30 minutes so no disease would survive and we don't use antibiotic or any other treatments for hives in Australia (they are banned) so it should not spread contaminates or disease.
Of course the candy would looks terrible!
Just an idea. Happy to have it shot down ;-).
Cheers
Damien