My source tells me:
> Queens lay mostly non-hatching eggs after being chilled or starved (Hitchcock, 1956*).
* Hitchcock, J.D., 1956. Honey bee queens whose eggs all fail to hatch. Journal of Economical Entomology 49, 11–14.
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