Chris,

>Did you ever complete the protocol? Perhaps some thought needs to be given
>to these trial difficulties.

I completely agree. One of the reasons I've been slow in sorting out a protocol
is I need to take some pictures myself and get some measurements out. The
weather, time and the wife have so far been against me.

The main problem is making sure that you get a good clean picture of the
comb area without camera movement, ensuring sure that the edges of cells
are in focus. Initally I want to ignore what's in the cells and just look
at the total comb area in the broodnest and the %ages of worker and drone
brood.

Hopefully it will stop being cold so I'm not force to whizz through colonies.

Cheers,

Steve.



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