On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Paul Walton wrote:
 
> as I had expected. The thing that really suprised me, however, was that
> one of them had a sealed queen cell in it and was well stocked with bees
> and comb filled with honey. I have absolutely no idea how this can be
> since they have not had access to a queen for at least a month and there
> are no other eggs in the mini-nuc. Where did they get the egg to make a
> queen-cell?
>
        Hello Paul,
        I have often seen colonies make queen cells with the eggs from
laying workers. Could this be the case ?