Queen cells on excluder

[its.only.money]

Hi
Today I checked a strong hive with a couple of supers on. There was small sections of brace comb on the QE with what appeared to be queen cups. A couple of the cups were charged.
No queen cells on edges or bottom of any frames as far as I could see.
Not seen queen cells on the excluder before, is this normal? They were removed in the act of checking whether they had anything in them.
I will inspect again in a couple of days, but just wanted ask.
Many thanks

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[Erichalfbee]

Play cups? I see them all the time
Charged? What was in them?

 

[its.only.money]

Normally if they're just play cups they're empty, and most were, but a couple had a small amount of white jelly in.

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[Eyeman]

 

[eltalia]

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Beespace..?...anyone?

Bill

 

[Madge]

I suppose, from a bee’s point if view, it can be a convenient place for a queen cell - particularly if it hangs over a seam.

 

[its.only.money]

That's it! Just not seen it like that before in my very limited experience. Likely to be space as well. I'll check again it a day or so.

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[Magwat]

I had a fully formed queen cell between the excluder and the top of a frame - it broke apart when I took the excluder off. It's the first time in 10 years that I have found one in that position so in my experience - no, not usual.

 

[eltalia]

I had a fully formed queen cell between the excluder and the top of a frame - it broke apart when I took the excluder off. It's the first time in 10 years that I have found one in that position so in my experience - no, not usual.

You seeing any pattern in that burrcomb build...?... I cannot.
It is all over the place, totally random.
Simply a case of too much gap between QX and BC topbars.
At this time of year easily proven to be so.

Bill