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Hello Bill Hughes and all:
In the first few days a very young queen often places several eggs in one
cell, but I have not seen the extra eggs placed on the cell walls as with
laying workers; nor have I seen this in 20% of egg holding cells. The
young queen lays this way (in my opinion) just because of her
inexperience, and it ceases in just a few days. In the case cited here,
it is not stated how much area in this six frames have eggs and larvae,
and how much area has capped brood ( presumably left by the old swarmed
queen). I read this as a new laying queen, the swarm having left about
2+ weeks ago; fill us in! My vote goes against laying workers here.
Bob Barnett, Birmingham
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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 19:43:41 -0500
From: BILL HUGHES JR <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Laying workers or young queen???
> Today I checked one of my hives and discovered that some of the cells
> had two eggs in them, but not all. I checked all the frames and
> found that it was about a 20% had two eggs while the rest had only one.
> There is six frames of sealed brood, larvae and eggs and lots of bees
> This colony did swarm eariler this year. Do I just have a
> young queen or laying workers?
Bill Hughes
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