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panic and buy a new queen, try placing a frame of eggs from another colony into the potentially <br /> queenless one. If the bees start building queen cells, then you were right. If they don't build queen cells, <br /> maybe there is a virgin in there, or maybe there are eggs that you just missed during your previous <br /> inspection. 411 <br /> Sometimes young queens are "overly enthusiastic" and temporarily may lay more than one egg in a <br /> cell. These multiple eggs will be laid at the very bottom of the cell. In time, and as more comb is drawn <br /> giving her more space to lay, she will stop doing this. However, if you persistently see many cells with <br /> multiple eggs and if the eggs are scattered around the cell (sometimes laid on the cell walls instead of <br /> at the bottom of the cell), then it is likely there are laying workers in the colony. If so, see the section on <br /> "Laying workers" below. <br /> 3.Are there queen cells?The presence of queen cups or queen cells does not necessarily mean the <br /> colony is queenless. If you see queen cells, go to the "Queen cells" section below. <br /> 4. Does the brood look "right"? One critical skill to develop as a beekeeper is to understand what <br /> healthy bees and brood look like in order to know when the bees or brood don't look"right." Sealed <br /> worker brood looks "right"when the wax caps are fairly uniform and flush with the comb. One clear sign <br /> that there is a problem in the colony is when drone brood is reared in worker-sized cells (Figure 55). <br /> Seeing dome-shaped wax cappings over pupae in worker-size cells means the queen is a drone layer <br /> or that the colony has laying workers. If this is the case, see the sections below called "Drone layers" <br /> and "Laying workers." <br /> - Figure 55. Healthy sealed brood with <br /> i r wax caps flush with the comb with a <br /> :-�" fir 4„, - ., . •R.. x . „ ,_ .. :...• =. k small patch of perfectly fine drone brood <br /> �'"rR , �. + .,.•. t ' . .. y in drone brood sized cells in the middle- <br /> yyy, -. "� aO... . Y -' .z..'. - _. -' = right side of the worker brood(top), and <br /> • "'�k ��� •�'. �'�.' 4.....`."ti :—•;.•,'"'-,-.--""� � • 7-. corn-puff shaped domes of drone brood • <br /> a ....4;� .K ,...,.,` _ ..- ` .Z a, ' 4.3 in worker-sized cells(bottom). <br /> "!A•�QO «Bd RIM iF N91� <br /> .a a r e1 vT . +4a'.Y`a.aosr+ ry�^' - 3k 7 7; <br /> a�sak,x b+ ss ,0 .:4 <br /> - 4114,141.4: s. <br /> .A <br /> 0:44-04:745,V44. <br /> a <br /> A.l �.. <br /> S 4 ' all : <br /> i < <br /> d 'e At '�it�"q <br /> ,�py <br /> ,....04 ( '-;i-. TFT P`' +F- l <br /> Nig <br /> I� •147.4bi !• ,I • . t aos90� • ..il * ote4r 'ewe. e`d�- �� 16.1 ,.r ^•t` ati . �//�AA " 4 " • <br /> .‘‘, ' -,-.A •41:VC ottilt:a. • -0. '-4.461. ,,,%,,'A? 1:01001, <br /> toRtisiu <br /> r- '1•44€Vc.1-crl,-- ti, 0 l'• 40 lk., r( ... vo • 'Li/J., T.::<=1,:cr... <br /> eft)k. <br /> ;' X , : r ' �© •) 7 <br /> Beekeeping in Northern Climates 76 <br />