Isis writes:
Another size measurement that has been used to make
preliminary 
identifications in the field is the length of ten cells of
honey 
comb. This distance in EHB is usually greater than 5.0 cm
and in AHB less than 4.9 cm. Several measurements must be
made in areas of naturally drawn comb with no distortions

Reply:
Careful, you now have a size loaded matter here with
seemingly no reference to actual history in the upsizing of
domestic honeybees from the 1890s or so on......someone
forget history, and if going back smaller alleviates
problems of parasitic mites and accompanying secondary
diseases, then this makes the oversight even more
upsetting.......Seems something wasn't factored right in
the beginning, and/or archives researched right prior to
publication IMPOV.

Respectfully submitted,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/


		
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