Several eggs in cells

[Pnut]

Thanks fat shark,

Will keep close watch on them.

[Adam]

Young queens can be a bit trigger happy - should settle down soon enough. Two possible reasons - in a small colony she really wants to get going but the are not enough bees to keep her satisfied so she is running ahead of herself. Other thought is that she needs to learn where she is putting the eggs - and sometimes puts her abdomen 'down the wrong hole' where she has already laid.


I wonder how many times a queen does such a thing and we never notice?

Multiple eggs would be a real concern if there were no queen.

[prakel]

Another possible is that she's laying faster than cells are becoming available - new queen's tend to lay rapidly to begin with (maybe it's an instinct to repopulate the nest). Even older, established queen's will double lay if there's a shortage of available cells.

[Pnut]

Thanks for the replies folks. I’m thinking not enough bees to keep her satisfied, as there is drawn comb available to her.

I’m due to rejoin with her original colony, dispatching the old queen obviously, will do just as soon as the weather here in west of Scotland allows.