Ted Wout wrote: > I have noticed that sometimes the cells in this burr comb have more than > one egg in them. It's not laying workers because the queen is free and > laying away. Could it be that the first few layings are haphazard and it > takes the queen a few trials to get things under control? I've only > noticed this twice and thought that maybe I had laying workers. After > further inspection, I had a queen and everything was fine. Has anyone else > noticed this? New queen do those thinks, and sometime difficulty to begining laying My bee Father say: attach a frame with eggs from a other hive. The queen "thinks"(do they??): O!. is that the trick, i can do that to, look at this" -- -------------------------------------------------------- Jan Tempelman / Ineke Drabbe | EMAIL:[log in to unmask] Sterremos 16 3069 AS Rotterdam, The Netherlands Tel/Fax (SOMETIMES) XX 31 (0)10-4569412 homepage webside: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jtemp/index2.html webside van het AmbrosiusGilde: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jtemp/ambro_index.html webside for NECTAR: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jtemp/nectar_index.html with some pages in english on solitary bees. NEW PAGES ON THE FIGHT ON THE VARROA MITES. http://www.xs4all.nl/~jtemp/dronemethod.html --------------------------------------------------------