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Re: Helping the bees; comb size
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Mike S <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 5 Feb 2021 00:18:29 +0000
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>>>.   Comb built by queenless bees differed from any described in the literature. We think it is comb characteristically built by queenless bees that is neither worker nor drone in size but intermediate.


<><><>.    Reading that suddenly instigated the thought (Danger, Danger, Danger) what if we made a strong colony queenless at the start of a strong honey flow and then provided supers with frames of starter strips.   Would the bees then draw comb with larger cells?Mike in LA

 


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