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Offline Beetific

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How to kill the wax moth larvae from comb without a deep freezer?
« on: August 09, 2013, 09:36:53 pm »
My mentor left me bags of comb to clean and melt down and make things with it, as I wish. But there was larvae in it and I don't want to waste the wax, but I can hear things moving inside. I opened one bag and it was full of larvae squirming around.

How do I kill off all the larvae without a deep freezer?
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Re: How to kill the wax moth larvae from comb without a deep freezer?
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2013, 09:48:00 pm »
Anything that will displace the air will work. If you have access to dry ice or compressed CO2 that will work. I opened a swarm trap yesterday and it was full of moth and larvae. I closed it back up and poured a little acetone into the entrance and sealed it up. Opened it last night and cleaned it out. Only found one live moth in it.
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Re: How to kill the wax moth larvae from comb without a deep freezer?
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2013, 10:29:56 pm »
Same as your post in Gen. Beekeeping.

I put them in my solar wax melter. It both melts the wax and kills the wildlife.
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Re: How to kill the wax moth larvae from comb without a deep freezer?
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2013, 05:25:16 pm »
+1 iddee

Clean the wax. Kill the bugs. Simple
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