[ocba] Wax Moth (Galleria Mellonella) Infestation!

Jeff Bollinger jeff01 at email.unc.edu
Mon Feb 23 21:34:21 EST 2009


Hi everyone - we knew that we had a wax moth problem going into the winter 
back in December, and since our hive was dead and we got busy we never 
really had a chance to get into our dead hive and take a look.  I finally 
went in this past weekend and took some pics of the wax moth infestation 
in one of our beehives:

http://www.theocba.org/gallery2/v/Bollinger/waxmoths/

Question - I've been reading that the only way to be certain the moths (of 
all stages: egg, larval, etc.) is to freeze your frames and hive 
bodies/supers in a deep freeze for a long period.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we can reclaim this hive and 
start using it again this Spring?  Would it be worthwhile to clean up all 
these frames (about 50) and boxes (2 deep and 3 med. supers) or should I 
just buy some fresh frames with new foundation?  Or barring that, does 
anyone have a large deep freezer I can occupy briefly?  :)

Thanks,
Jeff


More information about the ocba mailing list