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Thanks for looking over my question.
I'm a new beekeeper as of last week, finally.
However, before my own bees arrived, I was able to do a successful cut-out which is now a thriving hive at my neighbor's house. And it was very rewarding. Since then more wild hives have been popping up around here and I have a question about securing the comb to an empty frame for future projects- two of which are within the next week or so.
My question is this:
If the actual chunk of comb is larger than the frame, how should I work it?
I am *guessing* that I would trim the comb from the bottom up if it's too long, since that's the last that would have been built, but I wanted to check here. Also, what about the extra comb? I thought I read something about leaving it on the inner cover to get robbed out by the hive's own bees, or is there a better alternative? Personally, I'm not interested in saving it for candles or anything like that at this time, and if possible I'd like to have the bees reuse it.
Thanks again,
b1rd
I'm a new beekeeper as of last week, finally.
However, before my own bees arrived, I was able to do a successful cut-out which is now a thriving hive at my neighbor's house. And it was very rewarding. Since then more wild hives have been popping up around here and I have a question about securing the comb to an empty frame for future projects- two of which are within the next week or so.
My question is this:
If the actual chunk of comb is larger than the frame, how should I work it?
I am *guessing* that I would trim the comb from the bottom up if it's too long, since that's the last that would have been built, but I wanted to check here. Also, what about the extra comb? I thought I read something about leaving it on the inner cover to get robbed out by the hive's own bees, or is there a better alternative? Personally, I'm not interested in saving it for candles or anything like that at this time, and if possible I'd like to have the bees reuse it.
Thanks again,
b1rd