a Bill Hesbach snip followed by > my comment or question
So I'm left with the question of how it would it be possible for a queen to just start laying larger eggs on demand in the midst of routine egg laying. If in fact, her eggs are larger for queen cells some restrictive laying would need to occur prior to laying so the biology of oogenesis could be allowed to produce larger oocytes.  


>Which indeed might happen in the case of a restricted brood nest that was being backfilled with nectar and/or pollen.  Cannot say I have ever taken note of egg size or carried a scale along to establish the weight of honeybee eggs... Must be a scaler thing since I cannot even image how you could possible do that?

>of course depending on how the experiment was done (methodology) could have happen accidentally or on purpose during the experiment...

>and a question or two... does the egg 'grow' during the time it is just an egg?  and why would someone graft 2 day old larvae?

>I will mention here that prior to a queen laying in a 'dry cup' the mouth (opening) of the cup is turned down to the dimension of a worker cell and then after the egg is laid the workers open the mouth of the cup up and begin expending the cells dimension.

>no bone to pick but I for one am a bit of a skeptic of an article I cannot read.  might even be more of a skeptic afterwards...

Gene 'eating that t bone and tossing the bone to the dog' in Central Texas but soon to be in California drinking a bit of wine...

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