a randy oliver snip and another snip and >my comments

Have any of those cells ever produced a viable queen?


And yes Aaron, likely many of us have made observations similar to yours,
and scratched out heads as to how to explain, other than eggs/larvae being
moved.

>perhaps the ultimate question (above) when it comes to the observation of bees moving eggs to generate a queen cell.  as most here I would guess know bees if left queenless long enough will generate queen cells from almost anything or nothing at all.  These often look quite nice and may be generated from drone eggs or ever cells of pollen or even nothing at all.  as Randy's above question suggest the existence of a queen cell does not mean it will generate a viable queen.

I would ask anyone that thinks that workers can move eggs to explain how physically are these eggs attached to the new cell.. ie it is my understanding that there is a bit of glue that attaches the egg to the bottom of the cell so how would anyone explain the attachment of the egg to it new cell?

Gene in central Texas

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