I pulled a 10 deep each off my two bigger hives yesterday. Got close to 80lbs of delicious dark honey.
My question is...
Should I put the deeps back on the hives for them to fix the comb and start using again? The last few frames I pulled were put in the freezer for a few days then I put them in my garage to keep them out of the weather. The moths decimated them and I had to just trash them. How do you keep moths and other insects out of your equipment? I'm assuming Black Flag is a bad idea. Right now the deeps are in the yard getting cleaned up by any bee interested but I need to get them out of the weather soon. Doesn't seem to be much traffic on them considering we are suppose to be in a dearth, but there are a dozen or so girls filling up.