Hi Mathew and All Just a quick query - you mentioned you had a queen in a hive and still had laying worker like symptoms with lots of eggs per cell. The questions here are: 1) where are you (geographically) 2) are the eggs drone or worker The reasons I ask this is that there is a small possibility that a certain number of cape honeybees have been introduced into the americas and this symptom you describe is often evident in hives affected by cape laying workers. Keep well Garth Garth Cambray Camdini Apiaries Grahamstown Apis mellifera capensis Eastern Cape Prov. South Africa Time = Honey After careful consideration, I have decided that if I am ever a V.I.P the I. may not stand for important. (rather influential, ignorant, idiotic, intelectual, illadvised etc)