Peter and Trevor
 Would moved eggs be in a normal laying pattern or in a
>>random pattern?
>
> I have never seen workers lay in a normal laying pattern - always just the 
> odd cells here and there.  A normal laying pattern with drone brood in 
> worker comb would suggest to me that an unmated queen was trapped above 
> the excluder.

It is not unusual for a queen to find her way through an imperfect excluder 
and lay a patch of drone brood at the bottom of the frames in the upper box 
and then go back down.

Marc Studebaker 

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