Mike, > > From the conclusion section of that paper: > "The work supported by the grant has now shown conclusively > that providing honey bee colonies with frames of small-cell > (4.9 mm) combs does not depress the reproduction of Varroa > mites relative to giving colonies frames of standard-cell > (5.4 mm) combs. reply; Disagree, as this study is no better then J. Berry's study which was not too well done. Dee *********************************************** 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