From: Erik Osterlund <honeybee@elgon.se>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 08:11:54 +0200
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Strain

Hi Lee

It was a quote from a posting from John, but the quote was originally from
a posting from me, so I'll try to answer. As far as I can remember 5.1 was
a whole box put on top next to broodnest for expansion of this. The earlier
put in 4.8 foundation was a test frame put into the broodnest (actually
better circumstance for correct drawing).

Erik

At 07.46 -0600 01-05-15, Lee Gollihugh wrote:
>My Norwegian friend also put on boxes with 5.1 on all kind of bees to see what
>> they would do with it. ALL of them, regardeless of heritage made nice combs
>> of them."
>> John Sewell
>
>John, did he put them on as suppers with queen excluders? Please explain a
>little further please.