Hello Dennis,

The results and my musings on this subject can be found at:

www.geocities.com/usbwrangler/size.htm

Let me to be the first to congratulate you on your work! I bookmarked your
site and will be  following your work closely.

About the only thing I could add which might help in your "musings" is that
I have seen many a worker raised in *drone cells* (for new beekeepers the
queen lays worker eggs in the drone cells and workers are raised BUT once
you learn to notice the different style of capping you know the cells
contain worker brood)  by the bees and the workers are not the size of
drones but the same size as those raised in cell size 5.1-5.2mm.

 I also notice a variation in size of bees raised in the same size cells but
honestly never noticed a seasonal difference until you now point it out. I
will now check myself. I can not remember reading about a seasonal bee size
but maybe others on the list will point us to literature on the subject?

You have got my curiosity up so will try and do a few small cell experiments
this year such as you did and see if I get the same results.

What type camera did you use to take those pictures as they were excellent?

Sincerely,
Bob Harrison
Odessa, Missouri

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