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> Randy did you just alter the rim diameter, or the whole cup and thus have
> different volumes as they did in the experiment?


How do you know what they did in the experiment?  As far as I can find,
their only description of the cells was this:
" After three days, the eggs hatched into larvae and were inserted into
queen cells with an inner diameter of 9.4 mm, 9.6 mm, 9.8 mm and 10.0 mm,
respectively."
I can't find anything about the shapes, volumes, or even whether they were
made of wax or plastic.

Just altering the rim diameter would have created a step.  So no, I ground
the end of a steel rod to a taper to match the bottom of the 8 mm cup.
So total volume was increased.  But that volume may be moot if there is
residual unconsumed jelly, as in the cells that I reared.
As you can see, the actual cells that the bees built were of roughly the
same size -- the cell cups mostly just held jelly, which did not appear to
be a limiting factor.
-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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