[shinbone]

Got a supercedure going on in one of my packages. Looks like things are progressing normally, with the 1st-queen-out killing the remaining queens in their cells.

In the photo, the emerged queen cell in the upper right has a perfectly circular chewed-off cap. The killed queen cell in the lower left has a side chewed out and you can see the underlying foundation through the hole.







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[herbhome]

Perfect picture, thanks.

 

[BDT123]

Excellent pic, Shinbone. Thanks for sharing.
Brian

 

[Fivej]

Fantastic pic. Are those drone cells that have had caps chewed off too? Looks like they are too far advanced not to be capped already. J

 

[shinbone]

Fantastic pic. Are those drone cells that have had caps chewed off too? Looks like they are too far advanced not to be capped already. J

I am thinking they are probably uncapped drone cells.




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[Bdfarmer555]

Pulled a frame like this a couple weeks ago, and while looking at the still capped but side chewed out queen cell, a fuzzy queen crawled out! Guess I saved her from immediate death and gave her a fighting chance.

 

[Boardrida20]

From my observation hive i watched this take place. Often the stung queens live for some time.

 

[Western]

Yes sir, that photo is so good you can almost smell it

 

[shinbone]

Thanks for the compliments on the photo. All I can say is that the latest version of the iphone is capable if very nice photos without much skill by the user.

 

[IAmTheWaterbug]

Awesome photo! I've mentally filed this as a reference

From my observation hive i watched this take place. Often the stung queens live for some time.

Ok; now I really want an observation hive!