"this is common in my area if colonies are starving for protein.
The queens will lay, but the workers will eat the eggs.  I have no idea if
that is your situation."

"Australian queens which often seem to get a bad rap here on Bee-L"

Not my intent to give the Aussie bees a bad rap either as I have had many fine colonies through the years headed up by Aussie queens.  But as Allen says, chalkbrood can be an issue that pops up mostly when the bees become stressed.  Back to my eggs only situation, there is plenty of protein available as attested by the presence of solid frames of pollen collected for the last six weeks from various sources and not used as there are no larva.  None...Nada...nil.  As stated earlier, I have no idea of the source of the queens but do know they are from Australia and I hope to be able to track the source to find out if this is happening to anybody else.  It is the 100% non viability that is perplexing.  

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