USE OF FOUNDATION 113 



brood nest the queen will make use of it to rear 

 a brood of drones. Usually it will pay better 

 to melt up such a comb at once and replace it 

 with a full sheet (Fig. 12) rather than risk 

 getting it used in this manner. 



Irregular combs, also, are often built 



Fig. 12.— Full sheet of fuimdation in wired frame, ready for the bees. 



where narrow strips are used. Xot only are the 

 combs hkely to be composed mostly of drone 

 cells, but they are hkely to be uneven, which 

 makes them undesirable. Uneven combs can- 

 not readily be exchanged, and much time is 

 also lost in uncapping or manipulating them. 

 The bees will always build some drone cells 



