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> Adam Finkelstein <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote in reply to thread "I can't stand it anymore"
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> > I saw a worker laying an egg the other day. In a completely queen-right
> > hive with a healthy, fecund queen. That made my whole week.
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> Now I am a new keeper, but it aint April 1st so can someone explain this
> phenomenon?


I have found drone brood up in the honey supers often enough to wonder if
every now and then a worker is up there laying. I wonder if in a very large
colony workers up in the supers may not get enough of the phermones needed to
prevent thier ovaries from developing?


Other thoughts would be a nearby colony going queenless and developing
laying workers who drift around or one of the African genes showing up
in the area.

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