Does anybody know why home-made wax sheets are so much more brittle than bought foundation? I was told about this on the wax workshop at Thornes earlier this year and have now experienced it again.

I read somewhere that bees don't really care about the cell imprints on their foundation sheets and that they'll just as well use a plain sheet of wax - so I tried it, but I don't think my bees are impressed. I've now cut them down to strips and will see if they prefer that.

Kitta

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