Hi all

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> Is the cell size the bees choose to make themselves no good?

In most beeking practiced in the western world the bees get little
choice...They are given foundation with cellbases already impressed on it
and because the bees are able to adapt to it they will use it because it is
there.

> And is the foundation to force them to make cells smaller than they would
if
> left alone?

No the 4.9mm foundation is merely the size that the bees would have been
producing for themselves had they not been influenced by artificially
enlarged foundation over the last century.


Best Regards, Dave Cushman
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