The economy of Turkey is defined as an emerging market economy by the IMF. Turkey is among the world's developed countries according to the CIA World Factbook.
And when one of these hives do die off, the comb is sometimes damaged by wax moths or even mice. But not the wax foundation. You can scrape down any bad comb to the plastic foundation and the bees will draw out the comb once more. A huge savings in time rewiring wax, and no costs for additional foundation. As a side note....
As to what to do with the honey comb afterwards, we used to chew on it and spit it out as kids. posted by MsKim at 7:51 PM on August 1, 2010. Yes, exactly, chew it up & spit it out -- honeycomb's like organic wax lips. If you're really hard core you could collect the excess and try melting it down, for candles.