

Outdoor Storage of Drawn Frames
A couple winters ago I lost a bunch of bees. In early Spring I cleaned out the boxes and frames, gave the remaining honey to the surviving colonies and stacked the boxes in my bee shed. When swarm season was well underway I raided the shed for equipment, only to find that wax moths had infested everything inside. Those frames were a mess - the bees' hard work was a meal for hundreds of little moth larvae. I ended up using most of those frames and the bees cleaned out some of