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- April 17, 2017 -

Queen Cell with worker bees and without worker bees

(left side) Worker bees on a queen cell. (right side) With the bees removed, a queen cell appears. This queen cell probably began as a queen cell cup, the typical origin of queen cells built during swarming and queen supersedure.

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