Do queens lay directly into queen cells?

[jd101k2000]

At a class tonight it was mentioned that sometimes queen cups are built up and pulled down. Sometimes they are polished and an egg is found in them. Then sometimes the egg will disappear.

The question came up, does the queen lay directly in the queen cell or do the workers take an egg from elsewhere and put it in a queen cell?

I had a think about this... my conclusion was that if the workers placed the egg in the queen cell then why didn't they do the same with 'emergency queen cells' (i.e. rather than using normal worker cells and extending them to become emergency queen cells why wouldn't they just build a queen cup, polish it and take the egg from the worker cell and put it in the queen cup.)

Conversely, queen cells are often some way from the main brood area, so how would she be encouraged to the edge of a frame to lay a swarm cell?

So, is there evidence that queens lay directly in 'normal' queen cups?

 

[Walrus]

There is another thread somewhere on the forum about this, with a quote from Huber, who observed the queen laying in a queen cup.

 

[jd101k2000]

Many thanks. I have also found a video now, too: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z67TnF8NuD8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z67TnF8NuD8[/ame]