Can't queens get egg bound as a bird does if their cycle of egg laying is 
interrupted quickly? Do you give her a place get rid of eggs when caged? To 
just stop it the egg laying abruptly is a good way to cause death with allot 
of female things such as birds. I would think with queens it would be the 
same.


In all these questions, it is usually a mistake to try to translate from one organism to another. Insects are VERY different from birds, just as birds are quite different from mammals, or amphibians for that matter. 

But in the matter of queens, caging the queen in the middle of egg laying has never been shown to have a bad effect on the queen. This has been done for over a hundred and fifty years. 

As a matter of fact, I have seen caged queens in "queen banks" spill out hundreds of eggs. If there are attendants in the cages, they no doubt eat these eggs, so you usually never see them.

plb

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