> > Talking about the exceptions is a distraction from what most are using 
> > and what is really happening: nothing much.

> Except when the exceptions are healthy and what most are using then 
> requires treatments for controlling pests, predators and diseases for what 
> is really happening. But indeed nothing much, as yet!

Well, actually, I was referring to references mentioning larger cells, not 
to small, or 'natural' cells and I really do not want to get into the 
amazing claims made for the latter.

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdJ0h1ztuMA

_But_, I am reminded that Europeans tend to have a wider range of cell sizes 
and access to some foundations with much larger cells than Americans.  I 
have always found that odd, but maybe the bees there or some environmental 
factors there are inexplicably different?  I still recall Jerry's story of 
hauling bees to Maryland and finding they could not get through screens they 
were going through just fine, days before back in the West.

That is not to say that Americans have not made some big foundations, but 
the ones I am aware of were intended to be an intermediate size between 
worker and drone.  The idea was that the queen would find them less 
attractive and that they would be used for honey storage, and because the 
capillary effect would be less, that they would extract better.

allen
Today, in Laguna Beach, CA.
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