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....
I overwintered with a honey super on top of the brood box. Spring is in the air and due to work I wasn't able to check the hive for three weeks. I now have about 4.5 frames of beautiful capped honey in that honey super.