> Me too. In a top bar, foundationless, hive in which I measured worker
> cells top left, centre and bottom right, both sides, the sizes ranged from
> 4.9 to 5.8mm, averaging 5.2.
>
>
Same thing that Dennis Murrel found years ago and was pilloried by the
small cell, adherents.Couldn't be since it worked for some vocal
missionaries. He did some great work way back when.

4.9 as natural is still being preached in spite of the evidence to the
contrary. I gave up trying to correct our local adherents who keep losing
bees every winter and cannot figure out why.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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