Peter and Trevor
Would moved eggs be in a normal laying pattern or in a
>>random pattern?
>
> I have never seen workers lay in a normal laying pattern - always just the
> odd cells here and there. A normal laying pattern with drone brood in
> worker comb would suggest to me that an unmated queen was trapped above
> the excluder.
It is not unusual for a queen to find her way through an imperfect excluder
and lay a patch of drone brood at the bottom of the frames in the upper box
and then go back down.
Marc Studebaker
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