Hi to all on BEE-L

Peter Borst wrote:
If there is a heavy honey flow on,
bees will draw out very poor quality foundation.

If not, they may even destroy it. I have given hundreds of
sheets of drone foundation. Occasionally they will attempt
to reconstruct it,leaving a bizarre maze of triangles and
other odd shapes. As for the small cell foundation, they
will draw it but they often attempt to enlarge the cells.
This seems to indicate that they find them *too small*.

Reply:
As there are two very distinct comb crawing phases within
each colony, one for drawing out workerbrood/pollen combs
and one for drawing out dronebrood/honey combs, how are you
attempting to drawout the combs you talk about?

Also, I would like to point out that I try to make
foundation for 4.9mm size without the corraling effects of
the side walls. Do you believe in side walls on foundation
for corraling the bees and size?

Regards,

Dee A. Lusby

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