> a test that I have not performed, but think would be good, would be
> to rear a couple of rounds of queen cells in colonies during a pollen
> dearth, fed only the supplements to test.

Randy, I am interested to know how you would measure the queen bees to the 
correlate that back to the effectiveness of the supplement.  The thing that 
come immediately to mind is say weight.  This was one issue I was interested 
in many years ago and there was a paper out with Don Nelson, as I recall, as 
one of the co-authors.  It was weighing virgin queens on emergence and 
looking to relate that to hive performance.  I spoke with Tibor Zabo about 
this and he was of the opinion, back in 1986, that you could not set up a 
scale of weights to use with emerging virgin queens.  You could only make 
comparisons within a batch and not between batches.

The other measurable factor would be ovarioles but Woyke showed that age was 
a big factor here.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA 

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