Queen cells above excluder

[M_lo]

I was very puzzled to find 2 queen cells, complete with grubs above the queen excluder. There was no other brood in the super. I assuming the bees moved some eggs from down below into some queen cups in the super.

Has anyone else ever seen this behaviour before?

Not that I'm complaining the super was a brood box so it made splitting them rather easy.

 

[tonybloke]

yep, seen it before.

I personally don't think that anyone has ever seen a queen lay an egg in a queen cup/cell. I reckon the bees move them in