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Podcast: Honey Bee Obscura Podcast
Episode: How to Deal With Broken Frames
Description: This is honey harvest time of the year, for the majority of the beekeepers in the Northern Hemisphere. Undoubtedly, you will end your uncapping and extracting time with frames with broken end bars, bottoms or even the foundation punched through or out. Â Do you save it? Replace it? Or... something different. In today's episode, Kim and Jim discuss what a beekeeper can do to keep these old and/or broken frames going. Bees can fix many mistakes the beekeeper makes with the uncapping knife or machine. But should they? Can you repair frames with plastic foundation inserts o...