Bob Harrison writes:
4.3mm. is at the bottom end of what you could ever get
mellifera to except.Way off from what I consider to be
correct for my area 5.1mm. (and what your graph Dee on
Beesource shows is correct for my area)..Also if waxed
dipped what would be the inside id. (4.1 or 4.2)?
Reply:
Here I heartily agree with you Bob.
While I am likeing seeing more small cell products come on
board, those doing it, but not knowing the parameters
needed by the bees and playing close attention to details
of what actual sizing the bees actually make and use, is
scary.
While this would make a nice seed comb for shaking down
packages if it works (my own opinion is it won't very well)
it would to me also be too small, and would necessitate the
bees having to upsize again to continue immediately, with
4.9mm wax based frames of foundation placed all around
them. I could see 2-4 frames in experiment tried this way,
but certainly not a whole super due to costs for our
honeybees. Meaning here ours even. But for the smallest
bees over in India area thereabouts, maybe this wouldn't be
to bad for them! Could the moulds been made for them
originally and somehow brought over here in purchase?
Anway, talk is and I posted it here, it could be on the
market here, soon in trials, and another product for small
cell beekeeping. But in saying this, while I like the first
two with Dadant (normal wax base, and now crimpwired wax
base), this one while adding to the products available,
might have to be watched to see where it goes.
Thanks for replying bob, and by the way, glad you looked at
the map and saw your size for honeybees in the size
spectrum noted, not that other sizes were also noted too!
Will be interesting to see where you end up in the
long-haul...........
Respectfully submitted,
Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/
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