Quote Originally Posted by Calluna4u View Post
... or sterilise with acetic acid fumes and just refill with bees in summer. ...
I am in a similar situation as Bridget. I have a dead nucleus that became queenless. I even found a tiny queen cell in there.

Some of the frames and combs with honey have quite a few streaks of faeces on them. I'm always worried that an acetic acid treatment on such combs won't be sufficient - particularly when the streaks are also left on comb surfaces with honey and pollen stores. Do you think scraping off as much of the streaks as I can and then treating them will be sufficient, or should I just melt the wax and boil the frames?

Kitta