Moths

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Help!!! I picked up a swarm 5 weeks ago and it seemed to be fine. Yesterday I noticed a small amount of activity for the number of bees at the entrance. When I looked in I found moths had consumed several frames of comb and only a small amt of bees remained. I have 9 other hives and check them all every 2 weeks. What should I do?

Tim

[BILLY BOB]

Is the queen still in the hive? If so you can do a shake down into a new box and foundation. Clean the old frames and box. If the number of bees is small, you might want to shake them down into a nuc box. (less room for them to defend)

If the hive is a loss DO NOT close the box up. It will only become a breeding ground for the moths. Open it up and clean the frames and box.

Billy Bob

[Andrey]

Moths - I hate these things!! I never have the problem with it in the actual hive but sometimes I do have a problem in the comb storage area. Sometimes they would find an opening in the box and destroy the all the frames in that box. By the time I realize that it is too late. Anyway here is a good method trap moths. 1 cup vinegar
1 cup sugar
1 banana peal

put in plastic 2 quart bottle and cut a 2" hole in the side .. fill
rest with water

Takes a week get fermenting

here is the reference on the hole thred in google:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=398548DA.4CFBAC47%40gte.net&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3Dbanana%2Bpeel%2B%26btnG%3D Google%2BSearch%26meta%3Dgroup%253Dsci.agriculture .beekeeping
Andrey.


[This message has been edited by Andrey (edited August 13, 2002).]