In message <[log in to unmask]>, Chuck
Norton <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Baudoux apparently also developed the first "Super Bee", larger and with a
>longer tongue reach. He gave an elaborate set of figures of cell sizes
>with corresponding sizes of the workersalong with wing and tongue sizes in
>the 1934 Bee World; the table was also given in the 30TH Edition.
and
>Dr. O. W. Park of Iowa State College
said
>"We cannot agree with Baudoux either in the magnitude of
>the results he obtained or the consistency of them"; that size of the
>brood cell alone is not sufficient to produce a much larger worker bee;
I wonder if we have here the standard problem in comparing results of
different races of bees, A.m.m. is more responsive to cell size changes
that other races. Did Baudoux do his work in France?
--
James Kilty

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