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Minnesota Hobby Bee Keepers last night.\u00a0 There’s always something at these events.\u00a0 Last night Gary Reuters, Marla Spivak’s associate and bee wrangler, took general questions on hive management.\u00a0 He does this every meeting, but he took more time last night.\u00a0 I learned about wax moths.\u00a0 Wax moths, which come on the winds of mid-summer, infest hives and ruin the comb.\u00a0 If all the hive box frames are on colonies by July, this is not a problem because the bees fend them off.\u00a0 Then, when the season is over, any frames left out of a hive box go into the cold shed and the moth larvae die over the winter.<\/p>\n
Here’s the interesting part.\u00a0 The function of the wax moth is to invade vacated bee colonies and reduce the comb and other residue, like propolis, to a substance more usable by the rest of nature.\u00a0 In other words the wax moth is another aspect of the intricate dance in which the bees participate, a natural part.\u00a0 The number of things bees can teach us seems, at this stage in my learning, as numerous as the pollinators themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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