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Offline Mosti

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Do bees re-use wax?
« on: April 27, 2017, 07:28:36 am »
If I put wax,  like empty comb collected from trapped swarms, and put it in the hives,  will it be recycled?
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Re: Do bees re-use wax?
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2017, 08:02:28 am »
No
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Re: Do bees re-use wax?
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2017, 08:51:12 am »
Quote from: Robo on April 27, 2017, 08:02:28 am
No

Really? I've watched as my foundation gets nibbled away. I hadn't really thought about it, but I would have assumed they'd work on old comb, too.

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Re: Do bees re-use wax?
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2017, 08:59:35 am »
I use a solar melter to remove wax from queen excluders.  I often just stack the wax bricks from the melter forms from welted wax just outside the melter till I'm walking to the barn to store it with other wax bricks.  Bees collect the wax from the bricks and carry it home in the baskets on their legs.
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Re: Do bees re-use wax?
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2017, 08:31:05 am »
This needs some serious research.
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Re: Do bees re-use wax?
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2017, 09:30:59 am »
When using drawn comb in a hive any damage to it is repaired for reuse though correct?
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