Queen cell Q's

[Greywulff]

I used the nicot system this year for the first time and just as an observation noticed a white substance visible through the back of the brown cell cups in the base of the cells.

What is it? Feed or something.... It looks like Vasaline but a little whiter and some is used before the queen hatches and after the Queen hatching the bees seem to clear it up fairly quickly. Any Ideas..

[Barry]

am fairly certain you will find that to be royal jelly the queen larvae are literally bathed in a puddle of it inside the cell.
Barry

[Greywulff]

But its white and greasy to the touch, also the queen at 13-15 days could not feed from this end of the cell as her head is at the other end nearest the cap. 

[TwT]

that is what you want, a well feed queen, means as a larva she had plenty to eat and will be all she can be, the cells that do not have this is the queens that probably want be up to par, I want that royal jelly in all my queen cells, oh she will only eat when she is a larva , not as a pupa.

[Barry]

and no fears, the excess royal jelly will not be wasted, the nurse bees will reclaim it, and use it to feed the 1- 3 day old larvae before they start on the courser diet of bee bread.

[sc-bee]

>means as a larva she had plenty to eat and will be all she can be, the cells that do not have this is the queens that probably want be up to par, I want that royal jelly in all my queen cells

;)