Fake Queen Cells?

[Hethen57]

How do the bees use those empty queen cells that they often build in a queenright hive?  I have read that it is normal to find queen sells (uncapped and apparently empty) that the bees just build....but I was wondering how they get the queen to lay in them or if they will transfer an egg or 3 day larva to them if they need to use them, or if it is just to practice building them?

[Jim134]

Are you looking at queen cells or queen cups  ???



   BEE HAPPY Jim 134  :)

[Hethen57]

Sorry...queen cups..

[doak]

Cups will almost always be present. :)doak

[Hethen57]

I was just curious if they can turn them into something they use to make a queen, or if they are just for show..(indicating to the queen "you can be replaced at anytime if we wanted to"  :-D)

[Michael Bush]

Doolittle used to cut them out and use them for queen cells for grafting...

[applebwoi]

Same question as Hethern57, what are the cups for? I've tried to get a queenless hive to make a new queen and found some cups  on the side of a frame the other day with larve inside but they weren't on the frame of eggs and brood I introduced so I'm at a loss??