a Peter Borst snip... 
A colony of dark-coloured Dutch bees was requeened with a (caged) Italian queen. The queen' s attendants were killed, but she was not released. Twenty-two days after introduction, the queen in the cage was very much alive, whilst brightly coloured young bees were present, and more were emerging from cells. One worker was seen at the cage carrying an egg much as an ant carries a pupa. The eggs deposited in cells adhered to them  very irregularly. 

my question and comments...
The obvious blemish in this is there seems to be some confusion in the message of sentence 2 and 3.  This question often comes up but there is never any explanation of how the glue that affixes the egg to the bottom of the cell might work if the egg was removed and reaffixed to the bottom of another cell... I think the last sentence above kind of suggest the same bioliogical question.

Gene in central Texas

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