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Jerry J Bromenshenk <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:16:57 -0700
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At 11:03 AM 11/26/1998 -0500, you wrote:
 
Bridging between the frames in two boxes is not always because of bee
space. All of our equipment uses the same boxes and until recently the same
frames.  From our observations, bees build more burr comb when they become
space limited - such as during a heavy flow.
 
They also build more of it on plastic frames - my biggest objection to
plastic.  Fred Rossman warned me that the bees tended to glue down covers
over plastic - I found that they also glue together the boxes more often
than when on wooden frames.
 
Cheers
 
Jerry
 
 
>>lever down the frames that have been glued to their neighbors above."
>
>I have always felt that when the frames are glued together, that means the
>bee space is not correct.

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