Greetings:
further to whether eggs above the excluder turn into drones?
I went to add another super on a hive last week and decided to work it a  
little more and have a look in both brood chambers
Upon taking the honey off I got a real discovery.
On top of the plastic queen excluder were about two dozen drone heads  
rolling around with the bodies gone except for one and that one was partially  chewed
Looks like somebody in the worker crowd decided to lay and eventually after  
hatching out they couldn't get out and expired.
Make sense?
Walter

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