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Should I ditch the plastic foundation?

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Metal


Hello,

Looking for a little advice on what to do with this foundation. I just added a deep hive body full of Pierco foundation and as you can see from the pictures, the bees are not drawing it. I did spray it with sugar water before adding it to the hive. It does look like they were pulling it correctly down at the bottom.

I have another hive set up the same way and they have just begun to pull at the very bottom and it is being pulled correctly.
 
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that happens with all types of frames from time to time even foundationless. scrape it off and give them another shot. I do not have pierce frames. but the ones I use come already waxed. if your are not do as Dave said. and paint some wax on them. However since they have already begun to draw on them I think they will be fine.
 
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This is are first year and we were told the day before you put the plastic frames in to melt some wax and paint it on with a brush do this even tho they already have wax on them. It made a world of difference between the ones we did and the one that we ran short on. But we only have five hives to do also.
 
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