From: DeeALusby1@aol.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:37:44 EST
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: cell size measurement (Size of Queens)

Allen wrote:
> If the genetics of the bees on small comb are not much, if at all different,
> from the bees that are being raised on large cells as I have heard claimed
> by the main proponent of small cell, and the queen cells used are not
> constrictive, and the feed is not restricted, and if we can assume that the
> feed for queens raised in large cell and small cell hives must be the same
> (or else we would be getting caste effects), then how can queens raised by
> small comb bees differ from queens raised by bees on large comb?

Reply:
How? By density of the body. Aerodynamics of flight i.e. speed. Also have
you ever thought the royal jelly could be different slightly? Just what is
the suttle difference between royal jelly of different colors of white to
yellowish? Then doesn't the genetics change slightly with each mating as the
small more variable pulls the big artificial less variable apart to
acclimatize?

regards,

Dee A. Lusby