Hi Bob ,and All,

I have a strange question.I made a split maybe three weeks ago.When I made 
the split I felt that I knew where the queen was,so without looking for her 
made my split.A few days later I noticed that the girls were bringing more 
pollen into where I thought that there was no queen.I checked the super out 
,and found the queen.
At this point I had not ordered a new queen,and assumed that the other 
three supers had no queen.Around a week later I checked the supers,and 
found no queen.

A few days later I put a new queen in the queen less supers.I gave the bees 
adequate time to accept her then released her.In a few days I found her 
dead on the ground in front of the hive.

A week ago today, on Friday the 13th I placed a new queen in cage in the 
center of the bottom deep super between frames where I had taken 1 frame 
out.Today a week later I pulled two large pieces of burr comb out from 
where the frame had been taken from.

I pushed the frames back together,and released the queen hopefully being 
accepted.After closing the hive I looked over the burr comb,and found a 
queen cell that I hadn`t noticed. I just looked in it with my magnifying 
glass,and do see a white larval stage pupa or whatever in it.The other 
cells on both burr combs are completely empty.

My big question is will a queen less hive be desperate enough to have a 
laying worker lay an egg,and then build a queen cell ,and try to create a 
queen from an egg that is going to be a drone?

This doesn`t seem possible ,sounds like a stupid question,but thought I 
would ask .I really would have to assume that there was a second queen in 
it when I made the split.

Wayne Young

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