On 5-Dec-11, at 6:18 AM, d wrote:

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> My interest was in how well bees drew comb during lesser periods  
> and that showed very large differences. Fresh frames are always  
> placed between a pair of drawn frames, and a ranking of best  
> results would be starter strip followed closely by embossed  
> foundation, with a big drop to plain foundation.
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Hi d and all

A few years ago I was asked by BC to write an article about my comb  
honey method.  In the article I told about using starter strips in an  
empty frame between two drawn frames in the centre of my medium honey  
supers.  I found that the bees followed the foundation size cells to  
the bottom of the starter then changed to a larger size cell (drone  
size or larger) below it.  I then started placing empty frames (no  
starter strip) and got full frames of large cell comb honey   
(obviously in a flow).

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

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