How to tell if your girls are hitting their winter stores...

[woodguyrob]

Here's my question..If / when the girls are hitting the capped honey will you see the chewed up wax on the sticky board? Just curious if that may be a good way (along with weight) to see if they are hitting their stores.

Thx-woodguyrob

[beeware10]

the only time I have seen wax on the bottom board is from mice or robbing. neither is very good.

[Mike Gillmore]

You might see chewed cappings that looks like fine powdery sawdust on the sticky board. This will give you an idea as to where the cluster is located too.

[iahawk]

I have a screened bottom board, with a pull-out tray. I pull it out regularly through the winter to look to see if they are feeding and how much, which I can tell by the lines of cappings on the tray. So, yes, the wax cappings will drop down and it can be a way to monitor how they are doing. I scrape them off each time then so I know if there are some again the following week they are new ones.