Zachary wrote:
Just wonder if any of your here have seen workers being
reared in
drone
cells.  I do not know if
1). this occurs under natural conditions or not and
2). whether it is seasonal.

Reply:
Workers being reared in drone cells!!! Interesting concept.

But what about rearing workers unnaturally in overly
artificially enlarged worker cells that go beyond the
bounds of possibility for the natural drone size ratio to
worker cells of 20% difference and you end up with all your
workerbees and colonies on a pseudo system out-of-balance
with nautre? Can placing combs to raise workers in colonies
on foundation bigger then the 20% ratio difference or even
near to that ratio be a healthy situation?

How do the parasitic mites that naturallly attack the
drones know the difference and secondary diseases for that
matter also. All the mites see is MORE food like in the
natural difference between workers and drones of Apis
cerana.

If 5.5mm was quoted by Baudoux in Belguim in the early
1900s pre 1934 to be natural drone size then what is 5.4mm
size of bigger other then trouble? Now Baudoux was
referring to worder size also in the natural in his area as
being 5.0mm which is IMPOV the upper limit of the natural
spectrum of 4.7mm to 5.0mm for the most part.

Regards,

Dee A. Lusby

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