In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] writes
>That is one of several (more likely) explanations for something I found this
>year: a sealed queen cell several inches above a good queen excluder with no
>other brood above the QE.  The queen was in full lay below the QE.
>
>Chris

This is another thing lots of people do not realise to be very common.
We will find these in a remarkably high proportion of colonies.

However, although you get the *occasional* viable one, most are actually
built on a drone larva and, although they look fine, never hatch.

The same colonies often (although this does not mean the majority) have
substantial amounts of drone brood in the supers and we have always put
that down to eggs carried up, and indeed have seen it being done.
--
Murray McGregor