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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: hjon71 on July 06, 2013, 10:08:08 pm

Title: Common Practice?
Post by: hjon71 on July 06, 2013, 10:08:08 pm

Do you normally run all frames through a freezer before storing over winter? I will have some with comb and some that I cut the comb out of and scrapped as clean as I could(really old dark stiff comb). I really don't want any nasty surprises next spring.

Title: Re: Common Practice?
Post by: AllenF on July 06, 2013, 10:15:48 pm

I freeze it all before.  We never did back in the day, but now I do.  I also don't scrap or clean any of the frames either.  I do let the bees rob out any honey after extraction, but then a couple days in a deep freezer and then into the cooler for next spring. 

Title: Re: Common Practice?
Post by: Michael Bush on July 08, 2013, 10:47:39 am

It freezes outside here... no need for a freezer...