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Re: Wild Black Comb Reused?

J. Waggle — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:03:20 GMT

... What else can you do with a bucketful of black comb besides throw it out? Might as well render it. I have used old comb to raise wax worm for fishing.

Re: Wild Black Comb Reused?

Scot Mc Pherson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:25:39 GMT

NOTE: Forwarding this also on to OrganicBeekeepers. ... Bill, That's a great question. In the wild/feral colonies, what happens REALLY depends on the bees

Before flowers, odd bugs pollinated plants - LiveScience- msnbc.com

cailleach — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:17:07 GMT

I thought you all might find this bit of trivia interesting. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33678909/ns/technology_and_science-science/ Before there were flowers,

Re: Wild Black Comb Reused?

KittBo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:10:01 GMT

You do have the same experience. I rendered an entire wild hive's worth of black comb and got very little wax. *But* I needed the wax and knew it was not

Re: Wild Black Comb Reused?

OOWONBS@... — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:07:21 GMT

I had "reasoning?!?" LOL! Warré hives continually get honey taken from the top, and typically/traditionally are not supered, but subbered/nadired. The queen

Fwd: [warrebeekeeping] neonicotinoids and the honey bees gut

Scot Mc Pherson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:51:28 GMT

I am forwarding this along, because it potentially explains much. Scot McPherson ... From: Bernhard Heuvel Date: Mon, Nov 9, 2009

Re: Wild Black Comb Reused?

Scot Mc Pherson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:50:05 GMT

I don't have the same experience with black comb, I find there is more cacoon and very little wax left in it at all, and if you render it down it looks like a

Re: Wild Black Comb Reused?

Daoud — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:58:19 GMT

Hi Kitt, Yes aware of your well documented/ photographed bee posts. Good show. Especially enjoy your feral bee tree posts. BTW if you don't already read Yahoo

Re: European and American Foulbrood Outbreak in Scotland

Dave Cushman — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:09:34 GMT

Hi Joe ... While it is not my place to answer for the Scottish, my take on this is is that AFB has been so rare in Scotland for decades, that nobody was enough

Re: Wild Black Comb Reused?

KittBo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:48:28 GMT

If you decide not to use it that way, the black comb can be rendered to make some pretty nice wax for coating your comb guides. Once you've boiled it and

Re: Wild Black Comb Reused?

Daoud — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:08:41 GMT

No comb color has nothing to do w/ fire in this case Bill. That was the oak tree that had been effected in 1993. Its the age of the comb & the propolis. I was

Re: Wild Black Comb Reused?

tonivdowns — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:28:34 GMT

Grant, I worked with a beekeeper who cuts the comb to size as much as possible, then punches holes in the top and ties them to the frame with telephone wire.

Re: Black wild comb

sgtwal@... — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:47:13 GMT

I use the natural comb when I do a cutout. But, in those cases the bees are given their own comb to make the transition to their new home less stressful. As

Re: Wild Black Comb Reused?

OOWONBS@... — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:20:57 GMT

Joe's a pro & I'm not, but I'll risk disagreeing. 1st, you can't just go from something much over 5.2 to 4.9, I thiMk, in one swoop. Or so I read. That aside:

Old queens make poor mothers (?)

gfcg7312003 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:15:51 GMT

As I've raised the handful of queens for my personal use, I've often wondered if those older, fatter, matronly queens would produce better queens than the