"One of the problems with the standard size is that in the brood nest, the bees only build the comb out to the necessary depth to house the baby bees, but honey comb is drawn out to the point where adjacent combs are separated only by the bee space. When combs are spaced at 1 3/8” on center, those two depths are not the same, and when combs are moved around in the hive, you are often left with two mismatching areas of honey comb are pressed together, killing bees, possibly the queen, and then subsequently get glued together making a mess for the next time you try to remove one of them. So with narrower frames, hopefully we get less of a mess and more even, consitent, movable comb.
There is another aspect of narrow frame beekeeping which is a benefit to small cell beekeeping. Smaller distances between combs match geometrically with smaller cell sizes in which logic dictates that a narrower bee is also a shorter bee.
Finally, a ten frame box holds 11 narrow frames. If each frame is trimmed by 1/8”, 10/8 equals 1 ¼” which means 11 narrow frames fit exactly in the place of 10 standard frames. With larger sized boxes that hold more frames, the difference is even more dramatic".
Колеги целта ми не е да се заяждам а просто да събудя дискусия, нито защитавам малките килийки нито големите. Очевидно е че данните от различните измервания при различните раси пчели са различни , интересно ми е дали някой е правил опити в България да установим каква е вариацията нищо повече , ако съм засегнал някой с постовете ми моля да бъда извинен.