and they then begin drawing one cell on the outside frame. By the time I
> caught the cell it was capped and there was a small group of larvae around
> the queen cell. At the time I knocked down the cell(s) and the existing
> queen continued to preform quite adequately.
>
> In the purest sense what I describe above might be considered an emergency
> and not a supersedure cell.
It is common for the bees to start emergency/hopelessly queenless cell if
there is eggs or you larvae isolated. We have to be careful in the spring
if lifting brood above the excluder. Not too bad if in the first super,
very likely to have cells started if in a second or third super.
Geoff Manning
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