Peter and Trevor:
Sorry I left out the part that it pertained to Apis
mellifera (for LC) vs Apis cerana (for SC) for comparison.

In the Western honey bee, A mellifera, the blood of both
the drone and worker harvae has a relatively high JGH titer
at the time when the cell fo the developing larva is
capped. In the Eastern honey bee, A cerana, the worker
larva has a relatively low hormone titer in the blood at
the period of cell capping which is also the period for
mite entry into the cell, however, since the drone prepupa
of A Cerana, however, has its highest blood hormone level
at this period, the mite select it as its host.

When you look at cell size the drone cell size of the A
cerana equates with the worker cell size of A mellifera and
knowing that enlargement of worker size happened......well,


When reduced/regressed down to size matching......problems
stopped................

By the way Ruttner stated that sizes for bees of both
cerana and mellifera in the natural do overlap each other
throughout the latitudes....so what does that leave out of
sync again other then the LC and bigger is better......

Respectfully submitted,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/ 


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