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Beekeeping => Beekeeping 101 => Topic started by: Zweefer on May 02, 2022, 01:38:43 pm

Title: Weird capping
Post by: Zweefer on May 02, 2022, 01:38:43 pm

Had a friend send me this picture asking what was up with these two capped cells?

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Title: Re: Weird capping
Post by: The15thMember on May 02, 2022, 01:58:43 pm

Are they drones mislaid in worker cells?

Title: Weird capping
Post by: Zweefer on May 02, 2022, 02:29:39 pm

That was my first thought, but there isn’t any other brood to speak of on the frame…
Could be old from last season, but you’d think they’d clean that out…

Title: Re: Weird capping
Post by: The15thMember on May 02, 2022, 03:15:04 pm

You could always uncap them and find out what is in there.

Title: Weird capping
Post by: iddee on May 02, 2022, 05:36:34 pm

"Could be old from last season, but you’d think they’d clean that out"

You could always uncap them and find out what is in there.

Sweef, I agree.
15, I vote a dead pupa that should have been cleaned out, but the weather was too cold.

Title: Re: Weird capping
Post by: LazyBkpr on May 03, 2022, 07:32:25 pm

I just zoomed it in and I see larvae in the surrounding cells...  One way or the other when the rest of the cells start to emerge those cells will be opened and cleaned...