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Title: Untreated Frames of Comb
Post by: Ben Framed on October 31, 2021, 02:50:30 pm

In your general experience for curiosity, at what temperatures is it considered to be safe to expose untreated comb in a garage or warehouse as far as 'wax moths' are concerned?

Title: Re: Untreated Frames of Comb
Post by: BeeMaster2 on October 31, 2021, 07:44:06 pm

When temperatures are below freezing.
Jim Altmiller

Title: Re: Untreated Frames of Comb
Post by: The15thMember on November 01, 2021, 12:11:42 am

I have found that as long as I freeze comb and then transfer it directly into a tightly sealed stack of stored boxes, I don't have any trouble.  I did that for a couple of years and never had a waxworm outbreak.  I do put mothballs in the stacks over the winter now, but that's more to keep out mice than moths.   

Title: Re: Untreated Frames of Comb
Post by: jimineycricket on November 01, 2021, 09:30:49 pm

I freeze the comb, then put it in tightly sealed trash bags, then store it in the top of my garage.  I don't worry about the temperature.

Title: Re: Untreated Frames of Comb
Post by: Michael Bush on November 25, 2021, 02:30:44 pm

Wax moth issues are very climate dependent.