Hello All,
In the fifties researchers turned to using weight of the worker bee to
determine the effect cell size had on the worker bee.

A few of the most noted researchers were:
Bucher,R. 1955, Kulzhinskaya, K.P. 1956, Volosevich, A.P. 1957,
Glushkov,N.N. 1958, Fyg, W. 1959, Alles,P. 1961, Schulz, L.E. 1961 and
Wulfrath, A. and H.J. Speck 1961.

For the list and the archives i will give highpoints of ten years of their
research on the subject:

Bucher found in 1955 that an old comb from which 68 generations had emerged
, the mean weight of the emerging bees was 91.6 mg., while the controls were
118.3 mg. with about 22 percent reduction in bee weight (  or reduction in
size).

Volosevich & Kulzinskaya ( 1957) said that larva reared in cells 6 mm.
received 21 percent more food than those larva reared in normal cells
(5.37mm.). Both concluded the figure 5.37 mm. to be the size of normal
cells.

Studies (with controls) by Kulzhinskaya (1956) and Glushkov (1958) found
independently ,that bees reared in colonies with enlarged cell size  were
heavier and larger , and the colonies with the larger cells produced more
honey than those colonies having normal cells ( 5.37 mm.)

Bob

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