RE: RE: I put a deposit down on some Honey Bees
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RE: I put a deposit down on some Honey Bees

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Welcome to bekeeping, may you have many hives. Those black plastic foundations, get yourself a chunk of honey bee wax and rub those down really wel. The bees will accept them much more readily.

The frames With the starter strips and wires. I use starter strips with great success but I'm not sure how the bees will accept the wires in the way. Clip (cut, remove) the wires on a "test frame" and see what happens. Make sure you put the "test frame" in the center of the hive.

I use starter strips without wires, they works really well, the bees like them and draw whatever size cell THEY want. However you have to be careful for the 1st few years (until it firms up) and / or until the comb is attached to all sides of the frame. The new comb (without wires) is flimsy and if you hold it wrong it will fall out of the frame.

If you haven't had a full frame of bees plop at your feet, then climb up your pant legs and sting you in the crotch, then you've missed out on one of the more exciting things in life.

Some bees are meaner than others.

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