Hi Barry & All,

> Briefly, 5 rectangular pieces of comb 5 cm x 8 cm with cells ranging in
> size from 4.7 mm to 5.4 mm were inserted into the same brood combs, and
> after three generations of brood were frozen and the number of infested
> cells and the number of adults and offspring per cell were counted.
>

An example of one of those piece milled studies not using a fully regressed colony or colonies I had referred to in an earlier
posting. A study such as the one described above can never be conclusive to how a fully regressed colony would deal with mites. So
in essence the study proved or disproved nothing concerning bees that are kept totally on small cell combs.

 . ..   Keith Malone, Chugiak, Alaska USA, http://www.cer.org/,
c(((([ , Apiarian, http://takeoff.to/alaskahoney/,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Norlandbeekeepers/ ,
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