From: Micky Lee <mlee4321@juno.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 20:50:33 -0500
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Size of honey and drone combs

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 12:13:49 -0700 "deelusbybeekeeper"
<deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com> writes:

[Snipped to get this one point.]

> Until the main flow hits we keep opening the queen up with her
> brood nest and giving her room to lay for maximum number of workers
> for honey production.
>
> As we build our new colonies up, often we sandwich in new frames of
> undrawn foundation into the broodnest between two good frames of layed up
> worker brood. One, it unconjests the broodnest and two, it gives the queen
> more new comb in which to lay, and three, it is the best place to keep
> drawing correctly sized and drawnout workercomb and not the bigger honey
> combs.

[Snipped some more]

questions

Have you measured honey [drone] comb? Are drones bigger than they used
to be? Is naturally drawn honey comb and drone comb the same size?

Micky