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Had a friend send me this picture asking what was up with these two capped cells?
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Are they drones mislaid in worker cells?
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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…
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You could always uncap them and find out what is in there.
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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.
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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...
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