> > Among the older capped brood, there are some cells (about 20)
> > which are uncapped and contain what look like pupae. I say it's
> > a pupa because it's not a fully-formed bee and it's not a larva.
> > To be precise, the "pupa" takes up the entire cell and I can see
> > his little face (larva don't have faces) looking out.
> >
> > Questions: Who's uncapping the poor things and why?
 
> since there are not that many workers it is probily the workers are busy
> doing other thing and just hasn't covered them over
 
Thanks for the response.
 
If the workers were too busy to cover the larvae, would they turn into
pupae anyway? I would have thought that they needed to spin a cocoon
in a closed cell first.
 
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Conrad Sigona
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