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The worker bees build queen cells, which are larger than worker cells, and the worker bees move eggs from the worker cells to the queen cells. — Gentaro Shishimi. WORKING MEMORY AND CONCEPT LEARNING IN HONEYBEES, 2013 Thesis

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Tribe G.D. (1982) Do workers move eggs?, S. Afr. Bee J. 54, 18–19. 

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Eggs are often laid by the queen directly into the cups, in which case she presumably has made a decision that this particular egg should be raised into a queen. However, workers also move eggs from regular worker cells into these queen cups, and queen larvae and pupae are frequently destroyed by workers [4].  — Chittka A, Chittka L (2010) Epigenetics of Royalty. PLoS Biol 

cites: 
Winston M. L (1987) The biology of the honeybee. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 

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Although there is circumstantial evidence (see Herold, 1956; Schulz, 1956; Monvagner, 1962) that workers can move eggs from one cell to another, this is impossible to prove except by direct observation, because laying workers very occasionally lay diploid eggs. — J. B. Free. The Production of Drone Comb by Honeybee Colonies Journal of Apicultural Research Vol. 6 , Iss. 1, 1967

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HEROLD, E. (1956) Tragen Bienen Eier um? Imkerfreund 11 : 352-360

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