Queen cell in my top super

[Pmatthews]

I just went back into my hive having artificially swarmed into a nuc on Wednesday night. Whilst removing all queen cells down to one i found a queen cell in the top of my two supers.

Is this quite usual? It seems to be a long way for them to have carried an egg...

 

[Spikedog]

Lucky you - Having shaken bees from all brood frames to check for QC's - some days later swarmed out. Autopsy found sealed QC in super - had been used earlier as brood & half but moved to double brood - missed it and an expensive mistake.
You single brood? Check for warp in Qx ?

 

[Pmatthews]

I'm on a single brood box. I'm pretty sure they must have moved the egg up there - it was a super that I had put back on last Sunday having extracted it. I already had a super on top of the brood box so they look to have moved it quite a long way...

I removed the queen on Wednesday and there was a very small larva in royal jelly in an unsealed queen cell I found today. I couldn't see any other queen cells in the supers so hopefully it was a one-off...

 

[Spikedog]

Hi PMat - Well for what it's worth today noted a single loaded Q Cell in the midst of a super. THis was a swarm and the super was last years 'wet' and above Qx - only possibility was the carrying up of egg from the (only being drawn) brood box - so in support of your thesis for "Have egg will travel"

 

[Nige.Coll]

They will hide them, crafty little swines.

 

[Eyeman]

I'm used to looking on the woodwork and on the spacer frame for queen cells but got a bit of a surprise when I spotted this one hanging from the queen excluder