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Re: Timing the interruption of the brood cycle to reduce Varroa.
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Dave Cushman <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:31:45 +0000
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Hi Chris

> whole frames of comb containing mainly  
> drone cells, they never do so naturally,

I made the error of using the word 'never', but such large areas of 
drone cells in freely built comb are unobserved by me, apart from those 
drawn on drone foundation.

The largest areas of freely built drone cells that I have seen were in 
fairly shallow top bar comb from cut comb cogs, no obvious reason for 
them being drone rather than worker, they were single examples that came 
from the middle region of the box, but I cannot remember exactly what 
number slot they were in.


Regards & Best 73s, Dave Cushman, G8MZY
http://melliferabees.net Email: [log in to unmask]
Short FallBack M/c, Build 7.21/2.01
Son of ORAC M/c, Build 5.o1/2.o1

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