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Re: Do bees move eggs?
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>   We also found 12 queen cells, 11 along the outside edges where
> the original queen cups were located and one drawn queen cell on the mid
> face of a comb.

The ones on the edge were almost certainly emergency cells.  The bees will
choose young larvae that are in an easy position to convert into a queen
cell if they are available.  Careful examination will show this origin, even
though it means destroying the cell, unless of course the queen has emerged.

Geoff Manning

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