I have not noticed this before and cannot answer your question but, the
photo shows something else interesting which people are often unaware of.
It is generally assumed cells are horizontal. In fact they are angled up a
few degrees to stop honey dripping out. The angle between the cells on
either side is clearly visible here.
Looks like nice edible honey!
Paul
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 11:04, Gilliane Sills <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The colony I housed last spring from a swarm, which then itself swarmed
later in the year, didn't make it through October, and I brought in all
the combs last month. Quite a few of the combs contained honey and one
of the combs was unusally thick. I attach a photo showing the size of
the cells - you can see that on one side the cells are more than three
times as deep as on the other side. Is this unusual - and why would the
bees have done this? The adjacent combs showed something similar but
less extreme.
Gilliane
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