I found a reliable witness to
bees moving eggs:
Gleanings in bee culture
1882 March Page 126
One more corroboration was noted. In one hive,
a queen was observed dropping eggs, not in cells,
but on the top of the comb, whilst a number of bees
were, with the utmost order and eagerness, watching
and picking up the eggs, and placing tbem in cells.
In this case, could the queen instruct the bees where
each egg was to be deposited, If her will regulated
the sex, or did they instinctively know the proper cell
for each egg? It could scarcely be. The only warrantable
and logical conclusion is, that the ova of a fertilized
queen-bee, in a sense differing from that of a virgin
queen, or even a fertile worker, belongs to neither sex,
being for the time neutral, having its future sex determined
by the cell In which it Is placed, and the treatment to
which it is subjected by the bees.
-K. Edward Montrose, Scotland, Dec. 5,1881.
Best Wishes
Joe Waggle
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