Moving Eggs

[Japey Edge]

Hi everyone,

When I extracted a super the other day I noticed, during uncapping, a single capped drone cell. Full sized. I uncapped it and pulled a grub out.

I've heard of workers moving eggs into queen cells, but could they have moved this egg through the queen excluder and into the super frames?

Or do I just have a dodgy queen excluder and the queen decided to pop up to tell me but return back down because we're friends and she respects what I'm doing?

This is my swarmy colony with queen of unknown status that I want to requeen (virgin? got eaten on her mating flight? Who knows? not me!!)

[Steve 1972]

i often get the odd one Jazz..when you start getting super frames full of drone brood alarm bells start ringing..had three laying worker colonies to date and dear lord what a nightmare they are..lost a bought in Queen to one..found her dead outside the hive..not meaning to worry you but for some reason bees do seem to move egg's about for reasons i do not know..

[NigelP]

Laying workers....All hives have a small percentage of them. Their eggs can only become drones.
When a queen lays an egg it has her pheromones on it, which tell the worker police it is one of hers. If it doesn't it usually gets removed. But if a laying worker lays one or two far from the brood nest, like in a super they sometimes get missed by the "police".

[Japey Edge]

Ah that's interesting, and reassuring.

I was wondering if my timeline for queen introduction to what I will refer to as "dodgy colony" was shortened.

Thanks for that guys.