I'm in, Randy. 
Hope you were not bothered by the earthquakes. 
And ... more and more beekeepers want to get you to Belgium and the Netherlands! 
That will be exciting!

Kind regards,

Ghislain.
Belgium, Europe.

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Van: Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]> Namens randy oliver
Verzonden: vrijdag 5 juli 2019 20:50
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Onderwerp: Re: [BEE-L] Queen eggs bigger than worker eggs?

Interesting discussion!
Yes, difficult to imagine that a queen pumping out eggs at the rate of more than one per minute, 24 hrs per day, could customize the egg size during its last few seconds of its passage down the oviduct.

But an even bigger question is in regard to supersedure cells.  What percentage are created from worker larvae, floated to the top of the cell to make an "emergency" cell, vs. those created from an egg laid by the queen in a natural queen cell cup?

I've been dissecting what appear to be supersedure cells, and find both.  I plan to be more diligent later this summer when my colonies with 2nd-yr queens begin supersedures in earnest in August.  I ask all you beekeepers to do the same--when you see a supersedure cell that you don't need to emerge, please first confirm that there is still a queen present in the hive (confirming that it is supersedure rather than emergency), then take your hive tool tip and dissect the cell down to the bottom of the jelly.
Please let me know iff the jelly goes to a queen cup (queen produced from an egg laid in a queen cup), or all the way down to the foundation (queen produced from a worker cell).

--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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