> One package in each pair was installed in a hive containing frames of standard-cell comb built of beeswax, and the other package in each pair was installed in a hive containing frames of small-cell comb built of plastic (Honey Super Cell, Westmorland, CA,USA). 

> Note: We used plastic combs to be certain that the colonies that received the small-cell treatment had only small cells in their combs. We failed in two attempts in 2007 and 2008 to get our bees to build beeswax combs consisting entirely of small cells by giving them frames containing small- cell foundation (4.9 mm, Dadant and Sons, Hamilton, IL, USA).

> Despite *our hope* that equipping colonies of European honeybees with small-cell combs would protect them from Varroa by inhibiting the mite's reproduction, we found no evidence of this in our study. -- Thomas D. SEELEY, Sean R. GRIFFIN

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