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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: Jen on August 20, 2016, 11:02:13 pm

Title: BT On Spun Out Honey Frames?
Post by: Jen on August 20, 2016, 11:02:13 pm

Just finished spinning the honey frames for myself this year. Should I spray the freshly spun out frames with BT before I put them in storage in the shed?

Title: Re: BT On Spun Out Honey Frames?
Post by: Jacobs on August 21, 2016, 06:24:43 am

Honey is anti-bacterial.  BT is BT.  Let the bees clean up the honey residue on the frames first.  You should be happier with the results.

Title: Re: BT On Spun Out Honey Frames?
Post by: kebee on August 21, 2016, 06:42:55 am

 In other words let the bees clean the honey and than spray the comb with bt, than you will be set until the next honey harvest and do it over again before storage.

Ken

Title: Re: BT On Spun Out Honey Frames?
Post by: Jen on August 21, 2016, 01:27:53 pm

Hmmm, I was going to put these yummy empty frames into storage for next spring. I won't be getting another honey crop, what they make now will be used for winter food. Not much nectar in these part of the woods these days.

Would the BT taint the left over honey for the bees next spring?

Title: Re: BT On Spun Out Honey Frames?
Post by: CBT on August 21, 2016, 01:37:55 pm

If you place them in a hive body and put the hive body on the short side down on a block in the yard the bees will have a feeding field day and take that honey back home. When they are done in two or three days spray em, rack em, bag em, place a paper plate with some moth balls that start with P on the plate. Seal it up and put them where the sun don't shine. ...On the bag that is. :laugh: :laugh:

Title: Re: BT On Spun Out Honey Frames?
Post by: G3farms on August 21, 2016, 03:23:11 pm

When I spray BT I always let the frames dry out first, this way they do not mold.

Place the super of treated frames in an upside down outer cover and a sheet of news paper between each super, then top off with another outer cover. Just a super in a plastic bag will not protect them from miss mouse. I had about five supers I had treated and stored in my Mom's garage, forgotten for twenty years (according to the date on the newspapers) and they looked as good as the day I extracted them.

Title: Re: BT On Spun Out Honey Frames?
Post by: Zulu on August 21, 2016, 06:39:02 pm

You really must let them clean them up.  The wax moth larvae will get under the honey that is left in there and destroy the comb

The BT won't harm the honey or the bees , but best results are on dry clean drawn comb.

I get 2 years protection.

Title: Re: BT On Spun Out Honey Frames?
Post by: Jen on August 21, 2016, 11:25:55 pm

Cool! Thanks everyone! My bees will enjoy those wet frames for sure  ;) 8)