Year before last was a great year for honey-makin'
Last year was rough,
And this year is so far a great year. So I have some supers with drawn comb in the back that are two years since they were used, and I did pretty well to keep the wax moths out, but they've got some mold and are generally rough looking combs. I was in a hurry because the flow was really picking up, so I picked out the best frames, and put them in a box on top. I had another super on this hive already, it had a combination of plastic-foundation frames and blanks.
Well the bees "cleaned it up" ok, in fact the box of dirty combs looks fantastic. But when the bees were cleaning, they were dropping the stuff DOWN. So in the lower super, here's all this dirt and mold-debris embedded in the wax.
Except for this, the blank frames would have made beautiful cut comb.. now it's all dirty looking. :/ oops. I was wondering whether to try to package cut comb or just crush-n-strain it all, I guess I made that decision. Ha!
So, just FYI, the bees will clean it up, but they drop the dirt down.
Here's some pics. It looks fine until you zoom in, then you can see the crud embedded in the capping wax.
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