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 ?