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Bill Truesdell <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:48:02 -0400
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Peter L. Borst wrote:
> The notion that wild honey bee comb cell size is unnaturally large has
> never been proven to my satisfaction. Wild honey bees instinctively
> build the size that is correct for that species in that locale.
>
>   
There is one other major change since the study and that is AHB (which 
is now found even in the NEUSA but not in Arizona) which does reside on 
small cell size.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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