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From: allen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 07/21/2013 5:55 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [BEE-L] PF100s Three Years Later
>> I do have an interest in knowing if small changes in cell size
>> might have importance in northern winters and springs.
I think after all the cell size debate we have seen on Bee-L the research of Dr. Elbert Jaycox sums the situation correctly.
Bees are capable of drawing cell size approx 17% smaller or larger than their size.
All different sizes are present in most hives but usually smaller in the brood nest as in honey storage areas.
I have saw workers raised in drone cells and emerge normal size.
I kept for years in my office a plastic green drone cell frame which was drawn with solid worker cell in the center
Bob
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