Trevor Weatherhead wrote:

>...there was much drone sealed brood, 100's +, so they would have had to 
>move all these eggs and placed them in the cells side by side in a normal 
>laying pattern.  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.  This can sometimes happen during manipulation when a newly 
hatched queen flies and then lands back in the supers before the roof is put 
on.

Best wishes

Peter Edwards
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