How do the bees use those empty queen cells that they often build in a queenright hive? I have read that it is normal to find queen sells (uncapped and apparently empty) that the bees just build....but I was wondering how they get the queen to lay in them or if they will transfer an egg or 3 day larva to them if they need to use them, or if it is just to practice building them?
Are you looking at queen cells or queen cups ???
BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)
Sorry...queen cups..
Cups will almost always be present. :)doak
I was just curious if they can turn them into something they use to make a queen, or if they are just for show..(indicating to the queen "you can be replaced at anytime if we wanted to" :-D)
Doolittle used to cut them out and use them for queen cells for grafting...
Same question as Hethern57, what are the cups for? I've tried to get a queenless hive to make a new queen and found some cups on the side of a frame the other day with larve inside but they weren't on the frame of eggs and brood I introduced so I'm at a loss??