Hi to Chris and Dave:

This idea of taking casts of the cells is quite clever. It would be of real
interest to take casts of cells from the same foundation size which had been
used one time, two times, four times, etc. and see if the sequence tends to
a particular cell size before it has the cocoons removed and starts over.
This size presumably would be the smallest the particular hive is willing to
work in.

Although there would be no record of how many generations had been raised,
one could do it for new comb, fairly new comb and old comb.

                                    Best regards

                                    Donald Aitken