From: Erik Osterlund <honeybee@elgon.se>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:51:41 +0100
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@egroups.com
Subject: Re: A. m. m. and cell size

700 if strictly square decimeter is about 5.75 mm, which is way to big.
Good for storing honey.
Cowan said Italians were sligtly smaller than dark bees, which does not
defend such big difference in cell size being natural. Cowan also i 19th
century measured, probably black bees naturally worker cells (probably both
intended for brood and for storage, which are bigger) to be between 4.72
and 5.36 mm, so Cooper maybe measured storage cells and wanted big
cells/bees or worked with a hybrid without knowing it and still wanted big.

Erik