Hi All,
Allen is right about the numbers of cells per frame.
I just did some calculations and find it interesting.   However that
is a foundation size of a little more than 750 cells / sq dm.
Natural comb measurments that I looked up claim 825 to 850 cells / sq
dm.  That leads to more cells per frame at 850 cells /sq dm that
should come to about 7300 cells per frame if 1/3 of each comb is used
for broodrearing that comes to 4900 cells per frame or about 44000
cells per 9 frames which comes to 2100 eggs per day.  It begans to
seem that maybe the deep hive body was designed for a good queen on
the smaller natural cell foundation and that may be why we sometimes
see more than 10 frames of brood in a colony but as Allen says that
is usually because only part of the frame is used for brood.
FWIW
blane
 
 
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