RE:  Queen Cell on Hive entrance:
 
 
Beehives routinely remove debris from the hive and drag it out the
entrance.  It seems to me that the logical interpretation of what you
found is that:
1.  The hive either swarmed or re-queened itself (evidence = 1 used cell)
2.  The used cell was either cut from the comb by the bees or the beekeeper
      (probably the former, since the hive is not worked)
3.  The cell droped to the floor of the hive, and from whence, it was
draged out the front entrance.
 
The only unusual thing about this is that the cell was intact, usually the
bees chew the cells apart bit by bit.  Probably the cell was hung from its
frame rather than drawn out from it.  When the bees started to tear it
down, the support was weakened and it fell to the floor of the hive.
 
hope this helps, Phil Veldhuis
 
 
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