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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: super dave on March 09, 2007, 08:52:02 PM

Title: Foundationless frames
Post by: super dave on March 09, 2007, 08:52:02 PM
so if you go to Foundationless frames do you get a lot of drones--
hmmmm
Title: Re: Foundationless frames
Post by: Apis629 on March 10, 2007, 12:30:40 AM
I'd assume you would get conciderably more but, take into account that bees  don't just waste all their resources making drones.  They do limit the  population of drones in the hive.
Title: Re: Foundationless frames
Post by: Understudy on March 10, 2007, 01:16:01 AM
The average hive has around 15% drones no matter what you do.

Sincerely,
Brendhan
Title: Re: Foundationless frames
Post by: Michael Bush on March 10, 2007, 09:42:43 AM
>so if you go to Foundationless frames do you get a lot of drones--

You get the same number of drones no matter what you do.  Here's the study that proved that:

Levin, C.G. and C.H. Collison. 1991. The production and distribution of drone comb and brood in honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies as affected by freedom in comb construction. BeeScience 1: 203-211.
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