I'm a bit confused. I "think" I have a hive with lay workers. Its a weak 5 frame nuc split about three weeks ago. I can not locate the queen despite the nuc being weak. Not all cells with eggs have multiple eggs and not all cells with eggs have the eggs located on the side wall. But there are cells with multiple eggs and eggs on the side wall. The brood pattern is ok, but the capping is slow in progress.
So here is my confusion. I recently placed a grafted queen cell in a cell protector in the Nuc. The bees don't seem to be trying to attack it. I think they have accepted the cell. It's due to emerge tomorrow. Today, I checked for the emergence and now I see there are queen cells being built in area's in the hive that suggest supercedure.
I didn't think a hive with laying workers would build queen cells? Am I wrong? Maybe I don't have a laying worker nuc after all?
So here is my confusion. I recently placed a grafted queen cell in a cell protector in the Nuc. The bees don't seem to be trying to attack it. I think they have accepted the cell. It's due to emerge tomorrow. Today, I checked for the emergence and now I see there are queen cells being built in area's in the hive that suggest supercedure.
I didn't think a hive with laying workers would build queen cells? Am I wrong? Maybe I don't have a laying worker nuc after all?