> If I recall correctly, they had great difficulty in getting the
> bees to draw 4.9 cells.

This has been a common problem with research projects that have,
for reasons unknown, chosen to attempt to "downsize" the bees
themselves rather than simply rent, borrow, or buy existing
downsized colonies.  I wonder if they also attempt to build their
own woodenware.  :)

> At the time, I thought they did not really give the bees time to
> size down, not that I am a 100% believer that small cells are the
> answer.  I just think that scientifically you need to be as accurate
> as possible.

Scientifically speaking, the number of "anecdotal reports" is starting
to get hard to ignore.

As luck would have it, IR-4 has made its annual call for grant
applications for work on "biopesticides", so now is the time to
grab your friendly local neighborhood PhD in entomology and ask
them why they can't accept some free money to look at rescuing
some of the "technological castaways" from their respective
Gilligan's Islands of anecdote and apocrypha.

http://ir4.rutgers.edu/Docs/2005callforproposals.htm

Clearly, the "best" biopesticide would be one that is made of
nothing more than wax.


...oh, Trevor likely has no idea... ummm "Gilligan's Island"
was a US TV show about a group of people stranded on an island
who often amused themselves with attempts to solve various
problems they faced with examples of technology so comical that
I was able to give an entire mid-term exam to first-year students
in college physics by simply playing short clips from the show,
and asking "Would this work?  If so, why?  If not, why not?"
Most all of the examples would never have worked in this universe.


                   jim (See Spot. Run!)

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