[Robert Hawkins]

Don't worry about it. deformed births happen all the time in the hive. In fact, it may not bee deformed. There are about seven types of honey bees. only three are allowed to live. The others are what you saw. Maybe I can find the page on that. If so, I'll bee back.

Hawk
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[Robert Hawkins]

It's not where I thought it was. So I thought I'd better get back and finish the exception before someone else did. DWV is caused by varroa mites. If you have this problem, they lay three or four eggs in the cell just before the workers close the egg up in there and the mites feed off the blood (hemolymph) of the developing bees. Of course they're going to have a problem.

If you have a mite counting/treatment program going then no worries. If not, time to start.
It's become a normal part of beekeeping now.

Hawk