>> He found that size of workers varied with season, and, if I remember correctly, with which cells the bees raised the workers in...  I see small workers in colonies that have severe DWV infections.

We found that we observed small bees in spring before we began feeding supplement, but that they became much less common after we made it standard practice.

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