Hello BEE-Ler's I have just had and seen something that even my bee/inspector has never seen or heard of.... I have read on this list that the workers will move eggs. never heard that they would move larvae... I have a jenter Q rearing kit. I placed a Russian Q in it a week ago. I released the Q. 12 hours later and she had in fact laid eggs in the jenter cage which pleased me very much. I replaced the jenter cage back in her hive for 3 days and then went back to move the frame to the cell builder nuc in which i had prepared with lots and lots of nurse bees. Upon inspecting the cage for the eggs, i discovered that the eggs were not in the cells. ? ? ? I figured that the bees had either moved or eaten the eggs, so i removed all the cell plugs and placed them in a plastic sandwich bag while i mulled over why this had occurred. Now 5 days later, ( yesterday morning), I decided to try it again, so i put the cell cups back in the jenter cage, and around 10:30 am i caught the Q and placed her back in the jenter cage and placed her (in the jenter cage)back into her hive. I went back around 6pm the same day (about 8 hours later) to check to see if she had laid eggs again and to release her. I could hardly believe it, but there were larvae in many of the cell plugs and they were large larvae as if they were several days old. I am at a total loss as to why and how this happened. This is a new mystery for me. I called Dick Lippard (State Inspector), last night and left a message for him to call me this morning to see if he can shed some light on this mystery.. I spoke to him today and he said he had never heard of this before. Has anyone on the list heard of this moving the larvae? I made some pics with my digital camera, however it appears not to be working properly. I will attempt to send photos later if i can get it to come back to life. Jimmy Odom charlotte nc *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm