From: Erik Osterlund <honeybee@elgon.se>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:36:09 +0200
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Dadant full foundation sheets

Wow

You're lucky. With the risk of taking away some of the success, it though
would be interesting to know if you've measured your foundation to see if
it's 5.1 or 4.9. What source are your typical American bees?

Your conclusions are correct, yes, if your foundations are true 4.9 and
your bees are typical American kind of bees, which are common all over USA.

In Sweden 5% of my bees managed to do this right away, but my foundation is
4.8. But also my bees are not typical Swedish, but smaller than average in size.

Hope this experience of yours will be common.

Best regards

Erik
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At 15.29 -0600 01-04-12, Dennis M Murrell wrote:

>My typical American sized bees are drawing out full sheets of Dadant
>small cell foundation without any transitional cell type problems.