Hey check this out, it's an emergency cell on a frame of BIAS I had put in a nuc. It's over an inch long. Pic sorta shows, it looks almost like two cells stacked end to end. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180414/7b5a7062f9bfa49fa4e627162c886f2f.jpg)
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Edit: brood in all stages.
Cool, thanks Matt. I have not seen such a huge cell.. Maybe queen zilla is gonna crawl out of that cell. Thanks again for posting.
Your bee hive is now named: ?Home of the Whopper.? :-)
I would like to see the queen after she emerged. A slim cell will give you a slimmer queen. LOL!!!!
Wow! It is so long it looks kinda male-ish. :grin:
Usually they are duds.
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Quote from: yes2matt on April 14, 2018, 04:42:37 PM
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Also a good example of them doing everything they can to resist building comb around fish line.
That is what I have found out about the fishing line also.
Hard to tell without another angle or two but it does look like two cells to me. In this picture it looks like the top cell is in front and the bottom cell is behind. Stacked so to speak. I?m convincing myself I can see where the top cell tapers down.
At first I thought it was a 'lady-boy' cell (male q/cell), but whenever I've seen those they've had more regular 'stripes' rather than the usual 'sculpted' surface. This one doesn't seem to have that appearance. I agree that it's almost certainly a dud.
Re: the fishing line - that's pretty-much been my experience too. They'll tolerate fishing line if they've got no option, but avoid it whenever they can.
LJ
LJ, hey Buddy, good morning, I have no knowledge of a male/queen cell. Could you explain??
Thanks
Quote from: Bush_84 on April 14, 2018, 10:40:29 PM
Hard to tell without another angle or two but it does look like two cells to me. In this picture it looks like the top cell is in front and the bottom cell is behind. Stacked so to speak. I?m convincing myself I can see where the top cell tapers down.
It's one big long protrusion. It looks like two stacked end to end. No photography tricks I promise.
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Quote from: Van, Arkansas, USA on April 15, 2018, 11:35:26 AM
LJ, hey Buddy, good morning, I have no knowledge of a male/queen cell. Could you explain??
Thanks
Hi Van - sure - bees will always "do the best they can with whatever they've got to work with". Quite often when a queen begins to fail, she'll start laying unfertilised eggs in worker cells - and of course if left alone these will usually turn into mini-drones.
Sometimes (usually following beekeeper intervention) a situation occurs where there are unfertilised larvae in worker cells, at the same time as the queen is removed or otherwise becomes absent. The bees then detect that they are queenless, and start to hunt around for a suitable larva from which to make a new queen. Of course, they'd much prefer a fertilised larva, but if they can't find one, then they'll "do the best they can" with whatever larvae are available. (or maybe it's just because they can't tell the difference - the larva is in a worker cell, therefore it 'should' be fertilised, and thus viable)
Hence they start building a 'male' queen-cell, which I personally refer to as 'LadyBoy' cells, as just like human ladyboys they appear to be female, but don't have the right bits in all the right places !
Their appearance is quite different from normal queen cells, in that they are much longer and parallel, and tend to have a regular 'striped' surface appearance rather than sculpted. The bees invariably detect that something's wrong with them a few days after they're capped, and tear them down.
'best,
LJ
>Usually they are duds.
That's been my experience as well. I think what happens is the larvae falls out and is farther down instead of staying at the top where it belongs.
In my experience little good evolves from malformed
QCz, and that one certainly aint right. I note another
has been chewed, so all in all some sad sights there.
For this example I am in two minds over tbe fishing
line, a concept I am currently trialing this example
tells me the frame positioning may be the problem
as the comb appears to be offcentre.
Bill