>My point exactly, Joe! By providing a drone comb, you restrict where the >bees tend to build drone cells. And encouraging bees to build drone where you want it, -is IMO key to success in beekeeping. When I inspect newbees colonies, I tend to find many frames being used that are so spattered with drone cells that they should be thrown into the solar melter. Using such comb is costly to the colony in many ways. I would support the use of drone comb as one method of providing space for drone cells. The method I adopted is to cut 10% space into each frame. This serves the purpose of providing nearby available drone cells no matter where the cluster happens to be positioned in the hive. Best Wishes, Joe Waggle http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalHoneybeeArticles/ *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm