Queenless hive producing queen cells

[Freer4]

Checked q- hive/ split sat, to add test frame, but found a small patch of drone brood maybe ten at most but a patch of queen cells in the middle of the same frame sealed
Please advise oh knowledgeable ones

 

[MuswellMetro]

last desperate effort to raise queen cells, on any larva, so possibly Kingcells not viable queencells

but clumps of cells worries me, as that could indicate a barren queen rather than laying workers producing drone cells all over the pace not in clumps

are you sure it is queenless, any other brood

 

[oliver90owner]

Not much information to go on but it might initially appear that something was not quite as Q- as you supposed? Tell us the whole story. Did you split a Q+ hive on Saturday? 'Cos if you did there were some eggs transferred to the Q- split, simple as that?

RAB

 

[Russel]

On our last practical we had a problem colony to inspect, we found queen cells with drones in them. Bees rarely do anything to our plan and sometimes not even their own?

 

[Freer4]

Tenth of may split only hive into three coos of lack of queen and queen cells. The small nuc got united with smaller split which has a big queen laying well. The original hive was the biggest and had a few nice queen cells in it but still no eggs, can't see a vigin any where, so added test frame on sat . There has been no brood in that hive for atleast three/ four weeks but found a small patch of drone cells on one frame maybe inch and a half round but on the same frame is a patch of queen cells maybe four five.

 

[Freer4]

Would a laying worker lay willy nilly over the frame not one spot?