Hi Dave

My question arose because I am doing some queen rearing.  I put a Jenter box in a colony in the evening and by next morning the queen had laid just 2 eggs!  A day later and all cells were laid.

I suspect that she wanted the cells polished a bit better (although the box had been used previously, I guess that I should have put the it in a day before confining the queen), but it made me wonder if queens lay more during daylight hours than at night.  I could not seem to find any information on this anywhere.  

Best wishes

Peter Edwards
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