> Since ants and other bee species exhibit it, I believe only remnants of it could be left just like the thelytoky

Of course, everyone agrees that they *could* move them. The question is whether they do. The presence of eggs is not a certain indication, they could be worker-laid eggs, some of which could develop into a queen via *automixis.* That is why I was taken by the photo clearly showing the egg in the bee's mandibles. 

I experimented myself by caging a queen in a queen excluder cage where bees had continual access to her and any eggs she might drop. I have seen eggs inside queen cages so it is logical that the bees could and would move eggs from the cage. This never happened (under my watchful eyes).

To me, only photographs of this taking place would persuade me. Certainly not the observations of one researcher 30 years ago (and not since corroborated).

PLB

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