Hi Dave
My question arose because I am doing some queen rearing. I put a Jenter box in a colony in the evening and by next morning the queen had laid just 2 eggs! A day later and all cells were laid.
I suspect that she wanted the cells polished a bit better (although the box had been used previously, I guess that I should have put the it in a day before confining the queen), but it made me wonder if queens lay more during daylight hours than at night. I could not seem to find any information on this anywhere.
Best wishes
Peter Edwards
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