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Dee Lusby <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:42:34 -0700
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Bob Harrison writes:
This is the BIG unknown factor in the discussion! Can the
nurse bees control the size of the bee to match cell size?

Reply:
IMPOV from following our bees now since the early 1980s
thru two regressions down, and paralleling it to
information read in archives (the path sizing up then in
reverse is the path to follow back down), I would have to
say YES the nurse bees control the size of the bee to match
the cell size(like royal jelly can vary by bee size, not
talking caste here), determined by the size of the thorax,
but only to a certain extent with a range of say .1mm to
.3mm for each step up or each step down in sizing.Here
looking at work of Rothenbueler (sp not sure of here while
typing)and Egypt (project done together if I am remembering
correctly concerned royal jelly and size of cells), and Roy
Grout's unpublished Cell Size Thesis would be good to read
I would think, putting the information in the two together.

Respectfully submitted,

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






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