In message <000d01c656fa$c1299b60$b5792a50@office>, Peter Edwards 
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>A very interesting post.  Have you seen workers taking the eggs from 
>the queen?
Yes, many times. You see the queen with an egg already presented at the 
tip of the abdomen, and a worker removes it and goes to wherever.
>
>I wonder why they should then struggle up through the excluder with them?

I always ASSUMED it to be because of our culling of bad combs in the 
brood nest (anything over 10% or so in drone gets a one way trip to the 
melter). They were being left with not enough drones for their natural 
wishes, and so eggs were taken to where there WERE drone cells 
available. I appreciate that this does not explain why they should place 
some of them in worker cells, but they undoubtedly do place a *few* 
there.

-- 
Murray McGregor

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