Several weeks ago, I started to make a new queen by putting a couple
of frames with eggs into a nuc box.
Two weeks ago I saw what I thought was the queen but she hadn't started
to lay yet. All of the brood had emerged.
Today at hign noon, with no smoke, I openned it again,  (4X)
I did not see the queen but I did see eggs and some other STRANGE things!
First I should say that the bees were very content! (Red pollen again!)
 
1 There were three queen cells with two and three eggs inside.
2 There were some cells with two or three eggs inside.
3 There were cells with eggs attached to the very bottom but at the sides.
  Some eggs where not at the bottom but half way up an the sides.
4 There were many many cells where the egg was perfectly
  centered as they should be.
5 There where eggs outside the pollen/honey band.
 
I am assuming that there is a mated queen, she just has not got her act
together or shall I assume a laying worker.
I guess I will really know a week from now as the cells get capped.
Any one ever see this before?
Dave Verville
 
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