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Sun, 13 May 2007 21:51:00 -0700
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Jerry Wallace:
Yes SC bees also reduce the size of the queen cells and
also drone cells when you regress the bees down from larger
cell sizes. Then to lock the size in you also need to sift
queen so that born in the smaller sized down cells thus
changing the aerodynamics of flight and hence mating, helps
to make the size sift more permanent. This is done
basically because smaller flys faster, meaning while
smaller drones can ketch larger queens, it is harder for
larger drones to ketch smaller queens in flight. So
artificially enlarged LC queens and drones are then at a
disadvantage in nature for always being pulled apart FWIW.

As for production, it is hard to compare to outside of
local region, as for example our desert climate though I
get normally more in our area then others, in comparing to
other regions of non-desert flora, some might say I do not
get a lot. Yet, I am fully commercial and make living that
way. I am not migratory either FWIW but keep permanent
locations year round also. I also only take the honey above
the cap or broodnest, and that honey that is in the
broodnest in unlimited broodnest management, I do not
change out and feed back sugar syrups either, being organic
IMPOV, which if taken and sugars fed back could probably
easily double what I yearly do. But then that would not be
sustainable beekeeping to me, nor right ediquette for
keeping healthy stock. 

Dee A. Lusby





       
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