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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 12365" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>we used to store thousands of boxes of mostly manuka every year to feed back to the bees.it was put into large stacks and then covered with polythene and gassed with methyl bromide . This is a nasty greenhouse gas and also extremely toxic. In later years we just took the boxes down to an industrial freezer. You can bring them home as soon as daytime temperatures drop, normally this is around may. Wax moth can become so numerous that they create their own heat and in that sort of situation they will destroy everything. We always had some damage in our combs which we store outside on pallets with plenty of ventilation but mostly the damage was minimal and not worth the cost of doing something about it. Keeping dark and pollen filled frames out of the mix certainly helps.</p><p>on a smaller scale freezing everything for a week and then sealing to stop reinfection does the trick nicely but absolutely sure you don't leave any holes. We have two types of wax moth in New Zealand with the greater wax moth doing most of the damage but the lesser wax moth will survive on white combs and will even occasionally chew on straight foundation wax.</p><p>both serve a useful purpose cleaning up dead feral hives so they are not all bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 12365, member: 207"] we used to store thousands of boxes of mostly manuka every year to feed back to the bees.it was put into large stacks and then covered with polythene and gassed with methyl bromide . This is a nasty greenhouse gas and also extremely toxic. In later years we just took the boxes down to an industrial freezer. You can bring them home as soon as daytime temperatures drop, normally this is around may. Wax moth can become so numerous that they create their own heat and in that sort of situation they will destroy everything. We always had some damage in our combs which we store outside on pallets with plenty of ventilation but mostly the damage was minimal and not worth the cost of doing something about it. Keeping dark and pollen filled frames out of the mix certainly helps. on a smaller scale freezing everything for a week and then sealing to stop reinfection does the trick nicely but absolutely sure you don't leave any holes. We have two types of wax moth in New Zealand with the greater wax moth doing most of the damage but the lesser wax moth will survive on white combs and will even occasionally chew on straight foundation wax. both serve a useful purpose cleaning up dead feral hives so they are not all bad. [/QUOTE]
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