>>>> What puzzles me is that the above seems -- unless I misunderstand
>>>> -- to suggest that a natural broodnest does pretty much what the
>>>> small
>
>    Perhaps part of the answer here is that not all colonies do
> exactly the same thing, perhaps some colonies build proportionally
> more small cell comb than others and these are the survivors?

What concerns me is that we seem to get a lot of speculation, rhetoric, and
polemics and very little actual hard data when these topics come up.

One thing about BEE-L that some of us love - and many hate - is that members
tend to ask for proof and question speculation.  I know there are many
things out there that we don't understand, and don't know.  Butb there is
one thing worse than not knowing, in my mind, and that is thinking we know
something we don't.  I'm personally not satisfied with any of the elaborate
explanations I have heard, and I think the truth is still 'out there'.

allen
Still waiting for a good explanation.

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