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Offline Ben Framed

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What is your method of storing comb?
« on: March 17, 2021, 02:34:56 pm »
What is your method of storing comb?
The most efficient method I have seen is Ian Stepplers? method. If I remember correctly he stores his in a Refer Trailer. That way he can freeze it and kill any wax moths or eggs right off the bat. Of course he has enough hives to justify this. 😊
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2021, 03:16:08 pm »
Well I may get a chest freezer as I lost all mine this year to wax moths, I had 5 drawn supers I froze the we had a large cedar chest, last year no issues this year all gone  :cry:
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2021, 03:32:22 pm »
Quote from: jtcmedic on March 17, 2021, 03:16:08 pm
Well I may get a chest freezer as I lost all mine this year to wax moths, I had 5 drawn supers I froze the we had a large cedar chest, last year no issues this year all gone  :cry:

Sorry to hear that jtcmedic. I know the feeling happened to me season before last.
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2021, 05:17:32 pm »
I built a 4x8 "shed' with translucent roof.  Hung the frames about 1 inch apart on parallel 8' rows.  Six rows total.
had problems with raccoons so I added chicken wire sides.  Worked ok for the past two years. 
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2021, 06:01:44 pm »
After the ladies clean them up I freeze them at below 28 degrees for a few days.  Then I stack them in my closed enclosed unheated garage on a top and covered it with top.  Any gapes I tape.  No issues.  You really need to freeze them.
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2021, 08:13:56 pm »
ParaMoth.  Would be nice to have a freeze trailer as Ian.
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2021, 08:30:12 pm »
I freeze for a day or two, and then I put drawn blanks stacked up in boxes with a few mothballs and I tape down an inner cover on the top of the stack.  I actually do this with totally empty frames too, since I had mice get in and make nests in the stacks and chew on my wood 2 years ago.  Any frames with sections of capped honey or pollen I put in plastic bins.

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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2021, 08:31:42 pm »
Let the girls clean them up stack them and then store them with paramoth. 
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2021, 09:03:17 pm »
Thank you all for your responses. I agree you Mr Van. Ian has a good thing!  Have any of you heard of XenTari? You can read of this on Bee Source. It is a powered microbial. According to a video that I watched recently from Ken Davis. He says it has been used by beekeepers since 2000. Its a bacterium that the worm eats and puts them out. From what I understand it is not a poison but a natural fighter of the wax worm. I do not know much about this and was wondering if any of you here might have tried this or have heard of this? It is from what I understand has been approved as safe. If any of this is wrong, please correct me.
I am not recommending this but I am wondering your thoughts on this.


https://youtu.be/fa50FhkreHw
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2021, 09:35:54 pm »
 I have used Xentari also for years. It was the only replacement for the original Certan. I will be getting my supers and comb down soon and see how it worked this winter. Requires working off a ladder and not real anxious by myself right now.
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2021, 10:15:18 pm »
I tried B.T. or (Xentari) a couple years ago.  I couldn't tell much of a difference.  But I didn't track the frames very well with the increase in hive numbers that I had over the last couple years.  It would probably work better with just a few hives that you could mark the frames and keep track of it.
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #11 on: March 18, 2021, 03:53:12 pm »
Good thread--I've been struggling with wax moths this winter too, as well as rats chewing stored comb.  Getting ready to assemble a bee shed for my equipment to clear out the garage.  Need to research the XenTari...sounds promising.
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2021, 09:05:01 pm »
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2021, 07:54:18 am »
Up north it is easy.  Winter kills everything so I left boxes of frames out in the bee yard.
Down here it is a different story although I have but a few drawn frames and presently they are left in the open under a breezeway.  As yet no signs yet of them being attacked.  The frames are open not in a box.
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2021, 01:44:35 pm »
Brian,
The boxes are ok because our weather is cool enough to keep the moths from laying, for the most part. Wait another month and that will change.
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #15 on: March 19, 2021, 05:10:15 pm »
Jim we are in the 80-90's.  I am in my pool.
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2021, 03:55:21 pm »
I have a chest freezer that any comb goes in that is suspect. Other than that it all goes on para-moth. lid, Box with comb,piece of cardboard,(old beer carton cut up, 2 teaspoons of paramoth on that, another box etc. till i cant stack anymore. Start all over again  I used to tape all the joints but no longer do that. But I have found the freezer to be indispensable.
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2021, 05:14:42 pm »
Quote from: Acebird on March 19, 2021, 05:10:15 pm
Jim we are in the 80-90's.  I am in my pool.

80F and 90F, sounds so warm and in the pool to boot,  you bragging Ace? while us poor ol beeks North of you are chilling?

I would think with your temps, moths are laying.
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Re: What is your method of storing comb?
« Reply #18 on: March 22, 2021, 06:14:22 pm »
Not seeing anything yet on the open frames.
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