Something strange is going on in my hive. There is a rapidly-growing pile of discarded pupae that has suddenly appeared outside the entrance. While some of these are drones (and I can understand killing/eliminating drones), the bulk seem to be workers. The only thing that I can see that is at all unusual is that the worker pupae seem to be undersized. Some are developed enough that they are starting to color up and occasionally move, but most are fairly "young" pupae. What's going on? I don't recall anything like this being mentioned when I took my bee biology class. Has some odd scent keyed them to purge the hive of anything abnormal? Jane Beckman [[log in to unmask]]