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>It
> effects nutrition by broadening available floral sources. This in turn
> effects environment again, because flora not previously taking
> advantageof a larger array of bee visitation are now being
> pollinated more
> regularly and so the environment develops which further increases
> nutrition again.
MMmm - some pretty interesting logic there. Got any data? Like,
floral surveys of an area before and after small cell use? Or is this
simply an assumption? I am not saying that this doesn’t reflect what
is going on, what I want to know is if you know this, or just *think*
this.
>When mites are present in small cell
> workerbrood cells, small cell worker bees will open the cell, and
> kill the
> mites (and the bee pupae as a result). This is the beginning of the
> genetic pie. Not all queen lines will do this and so they will not
> be as
Mmm - my understanding from what Dennis writes about his experience is
that all bees he tried seem to do better on small cell. Not just
certain lines. Maybe I am wrong he can certainly speak for himself,
though I know he is currently apostate with regards to the small cell
group.
> It's a "whole" beekeeping ideology and method,
I think it's the idealogy part that trips some folks up. Makes it
sound like a religion.
Keith
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