Hi All,
Saw something unusual yesterday.  I have a yard of late nucs in which the 
queens have been laying for two weeks.  They were weak nucs, with not enough 
bees to cover enough brood cells to keep up with the queen.

It's not unusual for me to see two eggs in a cell with young queens, but two 
of these queens were happily (deperately) laying up to six eggs in a cell on 
the periphery of the broodnest.  The eggs were arranged upright in the 
center of each cell--looking as though Robin Hood had shot six arrows into 
the bullseye!  Didn't have my camera : (

Randy Oliver 

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