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josh jaros <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 7 Jun 2004 16:26:10 -0700
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Brian,

     Multiple eggs in one cells sounds like one of two things.  Either your queen is getting a little jumpy or you have a laying worker.  It seems like you were unsure about the status of the brood formations too, which leads me to believe that you have a laying worker.  The brood of a laying worker is raised as you described it in the first post.  Check to see if you indeed still have a queen.  You won't be able to drop in a frame to see if the draw out queen cells because of the laying worker.  Usually with a laying worker they won't draw any out.  If you do have a queen, you could add a couple of frames of brood and then switch the location of the hive with a strong one on a warm sunny day.  Wait a while and see what happens, perhaps she is a dud.  Everything that you said though sounds like a laying worker.




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