Multiple eggs in cells under queen cage

[simonforeman]

I have just been into one of my nucs to release a queen under an introduction cage for the last 5 days.

Released fine and she's strolling around like she's been there years. I noticed where the brood hatched under the cage the whole lot is layed up with multiple eggs.

Is this something normal and happens with queens being under a cage?
Is there a problem with this queen or now released she will sort herself out?

 

[Angry_Mob]

Its normal and even usual that they lay cells with multiple eggs during their confinement.

 

[ericbeaumont]

Didn't know that, AM, thanks.
They also lay multiples when starting to lay, but settle down quite quickly to singles.

 

[masterBK]

If you leave a queen in a cupkit queen box for more than a couple of days you get multiple eggs per cell.

 

[B+.]

They also lay multiples when starting to lay, but settle down quite quickly to singles.

Interestingly, Michael Palmer spoke about this at his presentation about queen rearing at the National Honey Show a couple of years ago . I had never seen that until this year when the crop failed on the farm near my apiary. Consequently, the colonies didn't build up as quickly as they normally would. The queen was very prolific and wanted to lay but the bees were unwilling/unable to do it. I noticed two eggs/larvae in cells over quite a large area.
I think it is a matter of balance: when the forage is available, the queen extends her nest and the colony expands normally. If she is limited, she re-uses the cells because she is in full-lay.
I had never seen this before this year so that was a new one on me too.

 

[Finman]

.B+, so it is extremely rare.

 

[simonforeman]

Thanks all for the comments to put my mind at rest.... hopefully she will turn out yo be a very good queen.

 

[B+.]

.B+, so it is extremely rare.

Not necessarily. I'm only saying that I haven't encountered it before.
I'm only saying that it may be a coincidental

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

What do you expect - you have a young fecund queen desperate to lay and you are restricting her to a small patch of comb to lay in.

 

[Finman]

.perhaps it is a miracle.

 

[Swarm]

What do you expect - you have a young fecund queen dsperate to lay and you are restricting her to a small patch of comb to lay in.

Precisely.

 

[Repwoc]

.perhaps it is a miracle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YewVugPHon4