<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Did someone approve this post from GTP? I think it was appropriate to do so, but I see there's an almost identical message in the moderation queue. It could be that GTP sent this message twice and a single copy was approved (which was exactly the right thing to do). The other copy should just be discarded.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GTP <gtp086@gmail.com><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>[Buzz] Wax moth or different pesky bug?</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">June 17, 2026 at 10:45:27 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Buzz - email list <buzz@buzz.marinbeekeepers.org><br></span></div><br><div>
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Probably an Australian Sap Beetle.<br>
They have preference for bee bread/pollen stored in frames.<br>
They lay eggs in the pollen cells, and the larva work their way
through the pollen, processing it into a grainy dust like very
fine sawdust. <br>
If the pollen frames are protected by a colony... no problem.
Stored pollen frames are vulnerable. <br>
Freezing for a couple of days to 0ºF (as my brother referred to
it, no-temperature) kills all stages. eggs, adults, larva. <br>
After freezing, you can store frames in bug-proof containers. <br>
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The other option is to renew the frame because the pollen was
probably stored in old, black brood comb anyway. <br>
I opt to cycle out and renew frames that have been used by the
bees for brood for 3 to 5 years. <br>
I don't share the opinion that drawn comb used for raising brood
is good forever. <br>
The cell diameters get smaller with each generation. After years,
what pathogens can they harbor.<br>
I got a box-worth of hand-me-down brood frames one year, and used
them in various hives. <br>
Those hives went down-hill over the following months. <br>
I guessed a correlation between the hand-me-down equipment and
problems.<br>
So I gathered all those (old, suspected of being contaminated)
frames from the various hives, stripped out the old black comb,
and converted those <br>
frames to foundationless frames (because I didn't feel good about
continuing to dispose of plastic sheets in the landfill).<br>
The following year the general health of all the colonies was
better. <br>
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That's my 2¢<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/17/26 3:06 PM, Gaia Toscano
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<div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">H</span>ello fellow beekeepers!</div>
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<div dir="auto">A few months ago I lost one hive and brought
all the 40 frames home, freezing them for 10 days.</div>
<div dir="auto">I had to freeze them in 4 batches because my
freezer is not big enough.</div>
<div dir="auto">Yesterday I wanted to use the frames to give
more space to my other hives but I found these little tiny
bugs.</div>
<div dir="auto">I thought wax moths had gotten a hold of my
frames again after freezing because I saw spiderweb-like
filaments, tiny yellowish wax crumbles and some dark brown
spots that resembled wax moth activity.</div>
<div dir="auto">I couldn’t find moths or larvae but found
these tiny bugs instead. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">See
two blurry pictures below; they kept moving...</div>
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<div dir="auto">What are they?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">Thanks
in advance for your help!🙏🙏</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Gaia Toscano <br>
ACC, CPCC<br>
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