A question that I have, which no one's been able to answer, is what
percentage of supersedure cells come from a prepared cell cup in which the
queen has laid an egg (or a worker transferred a larva to), as opposed to
emergency cells in which a larva is floated to the top of a worker cell,
and then a queen cell built downwards.

I find both when I dissect cells built while there is a laying queen in the
hive.

Could it be that queens today tend not to lay eggs in cell cups offered to
them by their workers?

Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
ScientificBeekeeping.com

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