Queen cells with only royal jelly?

[Dodge]

Clearly, sometimes the queen lays eggs in queen cups and the workers then remove them, I guess because they decide the time isn't right.

But yes, I agree that workers probably don't move eggs into play cups.

I concede that yes, the bees do not place eggs in cells, if that was the case then we would not see a newly hatched queen laying multiple eggs in a cell or for that matter the classic signs of a laying worker as the bees would move the eggs out around the brood nest I would have thought.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Never seen that

maybe have a chat with your optician?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

as the bees would move the eggs out around the brood nest I would have thought.

Or more likely they would eat them - especially if they were worker eggs

 

[Finman]

maybe have a chat with your optician?

And what I would tell to the optician?
That workers are moving their eggs?

Haven't I better to do than solve Welsh forum problems?

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[robmort]

My eyesight, particularly looking through a mesh, isn't so good as to see eggs easily, especially as play cups are usually half hidden under the lower frame bars so you have to break into them sideways before you can see anything in them.
I usually see larvae with royal jelly but this year in one hive I could only see the royal jelly. Did the split anyway, but knowing whether I need to destroy all of many play cups and most of these other cells is the problem.

 

[Finman]

How to spend quality time without seeing nothing