Some Explaination Needed!

[Mountain Bee]

I have a walk away split that was made on April 7 that I have been watching carefully. On April 21 there was a virgin queen present but as of last week no eggs nowhere. I just checked on them today and seen a few queen cells (some have been there since the split) so I opened a couple of them up and found a egg on the bottom but none of them were in jelly. Now there is no eggs anywhere else in the hive and the brood area is actually getting filled up with honey. One of the eggs was in a queen cup in the middle of a frame that has completely been filled with honey front and back. It looked like a total of about 6 or 7 queen cells but only 4 of them had eggs (but no jelly in any of them) and have not seen the queen since April 21. So where did these eggs come from and what should I do? I am stumped!

[Mountain Bee]

100 views and no opinions not even a shot in the dark. This looks like it might have you fellas scratching your heads like me. But hears a long shot that I will run by you. Now I do not know if this is true or even possible but I once was told that a queenless and broodless hive will steal a egg from inside another hive and bring it back in an attempt to make a queen with it. Anybody else ever heard of something so extreme or is this just another wivestale.

[psisk]

Dont know about that but you could have a laying worker. I have only dealt with that one time and she laid eight or ten eggs in each queen cup. I havent looked to see if they tried to cap one yet. Of course it will be a drone if the do.

psisk

[Michael Bush]

>I have a walk away split that was made on April 7 that I have been watching carefully. On April 21 there was a virgin queen present but as of last week no eggs nowhere.

http://www.bushfarms.com/beesmath.htm

The split was made on the 7th. The new queen would have emerged on the 19th (they would start with a four day old larvae). I would expect her to be mated and laying 2 to 3 weeks later would would be between the 3rd and the 10th of May.

[MrHappy]

Total guess, prob wrong, but if there are eggs in the queen cells and just filled with honey, can there be no nurse bees to secrete the juice and sensing that the queen doesn't want to lay since she knows that it's futile? Just a wild guess.