> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of allen dick
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:59 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [BEE-L] 9 vs. 10 frames in brood chamber [was: pitiful
> apiary inspectors]
>
>
> > So, if you space your worker comb at honey comb spacing, much of it
> will become droney...which is thicker.
>
> That's an interetsing theory, but we have not seen this happen in
> practice, and we would have if it is true.
>
<SNIP>

I have seen this where the queen has got into the super, the comb is drawn
out much further at the periphery and is often drone cells, the centre
appears 'sunken' as they draw it out less for the worker cells.
Ben.
(in Hampshire UK)

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