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!!)
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!!)
Jazz