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Hi
ok here is my submission, what is going on here? There are two possibilities. Only one is right.
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Senior Member
I would say it is a new queen laying too many eggs, perhaps due to restricted space.
It's not laying workers as the eggs are at the bottom of the cell rather than the side.
I see this quite a lot especially in apideas.
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update
I had several lively debates with other beekeepers about the unusual comb and the eggs/larvae in it.
So here a more recent picture of that same comb:
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The bees have not expanded the area of brood on there, they prefer using the regular worker comb on the adjoinig frames.
Here's a close-up:
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I have uncapped three cells to verify that the cells contain workers and not drones.
In comparison a drone at approximately the same stage of development (photo from a different colony):
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Of course this is not great for comparing as it's another odd one, but it's the only photo I have of a drone pupa. Maybe somebody else can help out?
Doris
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