More than one egg per cell

[JP]

Great picture Cindi!


...JP

[bakerboy]

Has anyone else seen the beautiful emerging bee smack dab in the middle of Bighead's pic !

Nice timing.

[Bighead]

Yea, that was what my wife was focused on, the multiple eggs were a bonus for me to see. Eye sight not what it was 2 years ago.

[tlynn]

I had a laying worker colony last summer.  This is what the cells looked like with the eggs in multiples.  The colony collapsed, I was too late to do anything about it, it was a sorry thing.  I think that your queen was laying more than one egg, personally.  Good luck, all will be well.  Beautiful days, to love and live, health.  Cindi

Cindi,

It looks like the eggs are pretty much all in the bottoms of the cells.  I thought laying workers deposit them on the sides of the cells due to shorter abdomens.

Tracy

[JP]

Tracy, if you look again, you'll see that quite a few are attached to the sides. Some probably fall to the bottom as well.


...JP

[Cindi]

Tracy, there was talk of this in another post, quite some time ago.  Sometimes the cells are not really deeply built yet, and the workers can fit eggs into those cells.  Hold on, I am going to look for that post to see if I can find it.  Beautiful days, to love and live, health.  Cindi

http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,17986.msg133042.html#msg13304

Read all the responses to this post, especially Michael Bush's and Brian D. Bray's, clearly, laying workers can lay multiple eggs, right down to the bottom of the cell, some interesting stuff here, from veterans of beekeeping, smiling.