Today being another wet sleet and snow miserable day i decided to sort my stored supers out that where crammed tightly with drawn extracted frames ..the reason being i had five empty supers that where used as ekes to house the syrup feeders during Autumn..with using them for ekes i had to jam 45 drawn frames into a further 30 supers for safe keeping..i use 10 frames in wooden boxes that had 12 squeezed in and 9 frames in poly that where squeezed with 11 frames..
On getting through half of them putting the correct amount of frames in each box i spotted something i have never seen before in one of my stored supers..the dreaded WAX MOTH LARVAE
.. some in sealed wax cocoons and some not..the super in question had previously had a Queen laying in it after she had squeezed through a faulty excluder..six frames in that box where destroyed and quickly thrown out of the greenhouse into the garden..
I treated all the boxes before storing with a sulpher burner so i have no idea how the little devils got into that box..maybe the sulpher burner did not work,,?.
However.. luckily for me i came up with a simple idea earlier on this year..and that idea was to place a sheet of tough plastic monoflex between each super when stacking them for storage..so instead of the full stack getting destroyed it was instead isolated to one super..
Here is a picture of the little devils which i believe to be lesser wax moth larvae due to their size..