> last year we went to hear tom seeley speak n ct.  he wanted to talk a little about small cell, and when ramona told him that our colonies had mostly foundationless comb in langstroth equipment, his question was "what do the bees do with no foundation".  this is from one of the most astute observers of feral bees around.  

I'm not sure what the point is here.  Could you expand this a bit?  Of course Tom knows what bees do without foundation.  I assume he wanted to know what you were seeing, and if you have some unique perspective that others may have missed.

> very few who have seen our hives (between our county club, our conference attendees, and various other beekeepers (in excess of 150 beekeepers) have ever seen comb being built without foundation...

That seems odd to me.  What sort of 'beekeepers' were they?

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