>It
> effects nutrition by broadening available floral sources. This in turn
> effects environment again, because flora not previously taking 
> advantageof a larger array of bee visitation are now being 
> pollinated more
> regularly and so the environment develops which further increases
> nutrition again.

MMmm - some pretty interesting logic there.  Got any data?  Like, 
floral surveys of an area before and after small cell use?  Or is this 
simply an assumption?  I am not saying that this doesn’t reflect what 
is going on, what I want to know is if you know this, or just *think* 
this.
 
>When mites are present in small cell 
> workerbrood cells, small cell worker bees will open the cell, and 
> kill the
> mites (and the bee pupae as a result). This is the beginning of the
> genetic pie. Not all queen lines will do this and so they will not 
> be as

Mmm - my understanding from what Dennis writes about his experience is 
that all bees he tried seem to do better on small cell.  Not just 
certain lines.  Maybe I am wrong he can certainly speak for himself, 
though I know he is currently apostate with regards to the small cell 
group.
 
> It's a "whole" beekeeping ideology and method,

I think it's the idealogy part that trips some folks up.  Makes it 
sound like a religion.

Keith

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