a Jerry Bromenshenk snip followed by > my question or comments.. 

I would add that Michelle Taylor and associates, in New Zealand, where there's apparently no AFB to confound the issue, got the same result.

>Early on (perhaps 15 years ago) I tagged the small cell idea as nonsense.  I think it should be a surprise to no one that the idea seems to have originated in a highly africanized part of the country and these kinds of bees do produce smaller cells if left to themselves to build 'natural comb'. In my own reading of bee history a lot of the 'small cell'  logic (and their math) was largely contrived and based on sloppy thinking. It should be stated that (based on very very old data) that the bees in Europe were not all of the same size and there was a significant difference in size when you compared the AMM bees of Northern Europe and the Italian bees of the south.

>Jerry I am unfamiliar with this Michelle Taylor so do you have a link?

Gene in Central Texas.

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