Hi Nellie!
Some dedicated beekeepers in Germany have gone the opposite direction and started keeping bees on 32 mm wide frames. The bees and the beekeepers seem to be happy with the reults, but I am not sure that 32 mm is wide enoug for dronecomb.
I always check my new Hoffman frames, and if they are any wider than 35 mm I whittle them down a bit.
Measurements in feral colonies have shown that bees like narrow comb spacing in the centre for brood rearing and wider spacing for drone production and honey storage towards the edge of the colony.
D
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