From: Pav <bobhog@pin.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 23:43:17 +1200
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Line 66 - wax

At 28/06/01 21:05:00, Don wrote:
>I wonder if there's a wax-soluble dye - maybe fluorescent - that we
>could put in foundation and starter strips to follow the extent to
>which wax gets pulled around. Might have to go raid my daughter's
>fluorescent crayons and play with some spare beeswax if I ever use
>foundation.

Leave your daughter's crayons alone Don, this can easily be done with bought coloured foundation, as used in beeswax-foundation candles.

Its quite dramatic - the bees really spread it around. If you really are serious about
changing combs to be sure of eliminating any possible contamination from old
combs/foundation then its probably going to mean shaking down. One coloured sheet of foundations will show up not only on neighbouring combs - but also in neighbouring boxes.

-Pav, still a week behind...