wax coated plastic foundation

[jaime]

An unoccupied brood box has sat in the beeyard all year.  The comb and foundation it contained are eaten up by moths.

Some frames are the all plastic kind that I think has wax coating?  Would these frames be recyclable?  Can I assume that moths ate what wax coating might have been there?

[ghoul469]

Most of the wax coating probably gone depending on the severity of the wax moth, but yes you can reuse them just fine. It just reverted to being a frame of foundation. One of the beuaties that comes from hard plastic foundations. Unless it was duragilt, then without the wax coating there is a very very very small chance that the bees will draw good comb on it again.

[Brian D. Bray]

If you think the wax moth might have eaten away the wax coating on plastic based foundation it has been reported to be recyclible via coating the plastic with a coating or 2 of wax.

[Jeffrey Tooker]

Most of the wax coating probably gone depending on the severity of the wax moth, but yes you can reuse them just fine. It just reverted to being a frame of foundation. One of the beuaties that comes from hard plastic foundations.

Ghoul 469:

I take it the frames you are talking about are Dadant M58705 EZ FRAME COATED 9 1/8 WHITE EACH
[M58705] $1.84.  

I am presently starting back to beekeeping. I was stuck in an apartment in greater Seattle untill I retired in February.  I have retrieved my equipment from my friend who was keeping bees untill he had health problems.

All is still usable except the frames.  The moth got most of them.  I am going to start three hives in the spring, so I am getting all of my stuff in order.  I am thinking about going to the Dadant EZ Frame listed above.  Are there any problems with going completely to the EZ Frame?

[Jeffrey Tooker]

If you think the wax moth might have eaten away the wax coating on plastic based foundation it has been reported to be recyclible via coating the plastic with a coating or 2 of wax.

Brian:

Is the wax coating on the plastic frame best applied by brush or dipping?  If I go to all plastic frames, at sometime I will have to recycle some of the frames.

[Brian D. Bray]

Brush on, peel off.  

I distain plastic frames.  Being old fashioned I prefer wood.