Trevor Weatherhead wrote:
>...there was much drone sealed brood, 100's +, so they would have had to
>move all these eggs and placed them in the cells side by side in a normal
>laying pattern. 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. This can sometimes happen during manipulation when a newly
hatched queen flies and then lands back in the supers before the roof is put
on.
Best wishes
Peter Edwards
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