Brood in super

[alecthomson]

Small amount of brood in super immediately above queen excluder.Am I imagining it or have I read that workers may transpose eggs from brood chamber and place them in a few cells in the super or have I just been careless or it possible that queen was slimmed down so much that she did pass through qe. Note queen was not found within super.Any thoughts?

 

[Cars]

I had this earlier in the year. I think that you have a Queen that has been slimmed down ready to swarm, consequently she will go through the excluded ! I also had queen cells, so I artificially swarmed them. Have a good check for queen cells.

 

[Midland Beek]

Workers do not move eggs. Either the last post applies or those are worker laid eggs which being unfertilized will turn into drones.

 

[alanf]

Small amount of brood in super immediately above queen excluder.

Turned up in somebody else's hives a week or two ago:

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17514

Turned out to be drone, so it could have been laying workers. Do you know what yours is yet?

 

[Arfermo]

Workers do not move eggs. Either the last post applies or those are worker laid eggs which being unfertilized will turn into drones.

Yes they can if they really want to. I found 5 sealed worker cells dotted around in an almost fully capped super frame 2 or 3 years ago and the Q had definitely not been up there.

 

[Midland Beek]

Yes they can if they really want to. I found 5 sealed worker cells dotted around in an almost fully capped super frame 2 or 3 years ago and the Q had definitely not been up there.

Queens are not the only bee capable of laying eggs in any particular colony.

 

[Cazza]

Workers do not move eggs. Either the last post applies or those are worker laid eggs which being unfertilized will turn into drones.

I too think you are mistaken. I had queen cells built in the super on a disaster demaree. The queen was not responsible for these. The workers MUST have moved the eggs.
Cazza

 

[Torq]

I too think workers will move eggs. On Monday I found 4 charged queen cells on a frame above a horsley board. The cells were in a group and there were no other eggs, larvae or brood on that frame. The queen below the board did not slip through, if she had she would have filled that frame with eggs as she's a fantastic layer. The frame was only drawn the week earlier. All the queen cells on the other frames were on point of capping and these were only a couple of day old larvae. So the time interval between this patch and the others would be too great for the eggs to have been there at the time of fitting the board.

 

[YorkshireBees]

Turned up in somebody else's hives a week or two ago:

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17514

Turned out to be drone, so it could have been laying workers. Do you know what yours is yet?

That was me and yes I can confirm they all turned out to be drone.

In one hive there were only a few drone brood from the number of eggs I had seen on the previous inspection so I assume the other workers tidied up.
In the 2nd hive with eggs in the super there were a lot more sealed drone when I checked the other day.