This is my first year beekeeping and I want to do foundationless frames. My question is, do you absolutely have to coat the starter strip, be it a Popsicle(sp?) stick, cardboard, or chamfer strip, with beeswax? As I said, I am a brand new beekeeper, so I do not have access to clean beeswax. Nor do I want to buy the contaminated stuff to coat over it. I assume that they will build without a coating of it b/c they do it in the wild and the reason for the coating is to guide them to where I want them to start building it at. Is my assumption correct?
Thanks,
James