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Built combs are frames with wax cells already fully built by bees. Beekeepers can save the built combs after harvesting the honey from them and use them during the [[Expanding | expansion]] of the hive in the next year.
Built combs are frames with wax cells already fully built by bees. Beekeepers can save the built combs after harvesting the honey from them and use them during the [[Expanding | expansion]] of a hive in the next year.
[[File:P1000427.JPG|200px|thumb|left|Half built comb, with some foundation wax showing around the edges]]
[[File:P1000427.JPG|200px|thumb|left|Half built comb, with some foundation wax showing around the edges]]

Revision as of 10:15, 31 October 2016

Built combs are frames with wax cells already fully built by bees. Beekeepers can save the built combs after harvesting the honey from them and use them during the expansion of a hive in the next year.

File:P1000427.JPG
Half built comb, with some foundation wax showing around the edges