Stan wrote: "A nuc box is too small. A 40 litre cavity is much better. Some nest cavities were in the 20 - 30 litre range but none was smaller than 12 litres. A standard deep box is about 41 litres." I don't think it can be entirely by coincidence that the (UK) National brood box has a capacity of almost exactly one bushel. Chris *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html