Zach's Beetography

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Multiple eggs per cell signify workers are laying eggs. This happens when a colony becomes "hopelessly queenless" -- i.e. no queen and no young larvae (<3 day old) to raise another queen. It takes 7-10 days for a colony without open brood and no queen to do this.

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