Ya😡we don't like Waxmoths😤NOT AT ALL!👍Good advice on comb storage.

Natalie, I hate the smell of paramoth. It almost makes me 🤢. Melissa and I use Certan or BT. It is a little more costly, but I haven't had a problem. Comb is Gold!

Sorry if I missed it, how many Hives did you start with and how many do you have now?

Had no idea….always learn from you! Thanks!

I buy those little packages at dollar store cut hole in middle of package and stack 4-5 supers and set one on top repeat, and use old migratory lid to cap off. Will use that excluder on bottom from now on.

Mom to the rescue again with paramothing 😂 and that looks like a Dad super stack on the left too🤔😂 See, your parents are awesome 👍 😂 Great topic not boring especially when you go to prepare supers for winter storage and the moths have beaten you too it😬 ive seen hobbyist boxes completely stripped out which is huge when you are only running a few colonies, a little bit of inattentiveness and moths and mice will make you pay. Awesome.

I have had damage the last 2 years. i froze my boxes for a few days and put them in bags and i got moths anyway. it is real crazy last year i used crystls and lost a bunch. I am begining to think that there is nothing u can really do to stop it. I wish I had a big freezer like BOB BINNIE that would be great

I got hit last year in my shop. My fault, lost a lot of frames. I will be proactive this winter. Thanks for the info.

Thanks Natalee

I set an empty super with a trash bag taped on the bottom that's sitting on a concrete floor and dump the moth crystals in the bottom, then stack supers with comb about 6 high. I don't have as many as y'all. Then for added security I wrap them with plastic wrap, even across the top before I put the lid on. Works for me and my little operation. Damaged comb I peel off the webbing and take an air nozzle and blow off the foundation till it's cleaned off pretty well, apply new wax, then put them back on a hive to get drawn out.

Thanks Nat .... I got the Kansas City 🎵 song in my head 🎶

Nice. How many supers do you have to store this year? I'm sure Kamon didn't put that top super on that tall stack. LOL

What is that para moth made of? Personally, I’m using mothballs from Home Depot. It’s made of naphthalene and it works fine for me.

It’s very good for ya

lol cold in Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

I use Enoz Moth Ice Crystals, which are much cheaper and have the same active ingredient as what you have there.

I got the plastic sign board from H depot to put between them and tape them, where they freeze. This year I got some para moth where they had brood, I have some deeps ready for spring , I’m a little crazy about my comb because it’s beautiful.

Im in S.C. and I just do my feeding with dry sugar. I'm in warmer climate and seems to help with robbing if I do all hives in yard.

Im in S.C. and I just do my feeding with dry sugar. I'm in warmer climate and seems to help with robbing if I do all hives in yard.

You have right idea-- a dedicated super storage. Looks like it holds a lot of boxes. I built a shed decades ago and made sure no bugs could get inside -- bees or other bugs.

Yeah it wasn't on purpose lol I didn't enjoy the taste of apigaurd even a little bit 🤢🤮

You amaze us! Thanks for the info Natalee, Love Grandma

Love this! Thanks So much

Hi Natalee and camera mum and apiguard propolis chewing gum dad😂 ohhh mannnn I just don't even want to imagine how nasty that tasted😂 you guys are slowing down we are arcing up, I even had to checker out a top box and get a queen excluder and super on One today 😂 hey, I'm excited about it 🤦🤣 got purple tinges on the thyme which means it's a week away from blooming and it's getting warmer, 68 degrees F today and blue sky, down to 35 tonight but it's getting warmer and the purple carpet is about to show up 👋👍

A power wash cleand the buckets well

Goldenrod mostly done here, asters still pretty good, and there's a plant that I don't know what it is, mostly found in ditches. It has a cluster of small white and pink flowers that the bees get white pollen from.

I’m in Jefferson City Missouri and my bees are on the New England aster and the hairy aster here.

The aster or something was awesome this fall in western New York, I got at least 1 medium super per hive

Nice information

Thanks for the update! I have found that late season cut-outs need a lot of feed to stimulate them to connect the comb and to build up. Good luck!

It’s always funny when someone else is getting lit up! 😂

A frame of brood would help them a lot. Thanks Nat.

👋😂 your poor dad is probably looking for his smoker, scratching his head, "I'm sure I put the bloody thing here"😂 nice result with the cut out 👍 I had a magic moment hive queen this week in a hive I'm helping a hobbyist with. Last fortnight I was looking for her and I couldn't find her for love or money. Went through his colony three times 😂 ended up having to shake down. This week I helped him do a split and first frame of brood I wanted to take out, bang there she is, put her aside on the frame and went into the bottom box, pulled a frame and I always glance for the queen just in case and zap, there she was, pulled her frame aside, got a frame of brood, put it back together, went back into the top box to get another frame of pollen and honey to finish out the split and guess who was there😂

It amazes me that you only have to cover your face. And that you can remove the frame and the bees don't seem to care.

I looked around and didn't see your smoker. I've been on the struggle bus every day this week.

Thanks for the follow up 😊

Bee pillows 😂

On the baggies . I just use a thumb tack . Three of four holes .

Good update.

Very nice Natalee

The best video, love it and thank you for sharing information. I live in Canada and temperature does go down -40C/-40F. Don’t know if bees survive these harsh winters.

That is a very nice setup. I have never heard about the wax patties before but I will definitely remember that tip for next year as getting all the honey out of the wax cappings can otherwise take for ever and ever.

Nice! What size is your building?

Wow you're mechanized. I decap by hand..and spin.

The more I learn about bees the more amazed of them I am. I'm surprised that she's just standing there unafraid and they're not stinging her.

The best cutouts involve no repairs to a building. Good going.

1 🥚 and it’s good

Great info. Is one whole pollen patty appropriate for single boxes? Not too much?

Keep up the Awesome Work! 🐝

Great stuff Natalee!😁