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I had a small split that apparently lost the queen on mating. I gave her a few more days and put in a test frame with brood. They started cells and about the same time some multiple eggs per cell. In about three days the egg laying stopped and I noticed cells being capped with bullet nosed caps. I think I caught the laying workers as they were just getting started since the one frame of brood seems to have put them right.
Would a well established laying worker colony fail to start cells on a test frame? sometimes; always; never?
It is a bit late in the season to mate a queen; should emerge Sunday 10 aug. but I have other strong colonies to donate brood and capped stores.
I took a couple of pics to silhouette the bullet nose drone cells and comparison to the proper capped worker cells on the donated comb with the emergency queen cells.
Would a well established laying worker colony fail to start cells on a test frame? sometimes; always; never?
It is a bit late in the season to mate a queen; should emerge Sunday 10 aug. but I have other strong colonies to donate brood and capped stores.
I took a couple of pics to silhouette the bullet nose drone cells and comparison to the proper capped worker cells on the donated comb with the emergency queen cells.
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