Little bubble looking thing in the lower deep (4th inspection)

[hardwood]

Hethen, It can happen either way. A queen will lay an egg in a swarm cell for instance, but with an emergency queen cell there may no longer be a queen and the workers must transfer a larva into it. This is one reason emergency queens might be inferior, the bees might only have older larvae to choose from.

Scott

[buzzbee]

Sarita,this is a photo of a queen cell:
http://www.vtbeekeeper.com/Images/QueenCellFrame.jpg
If you keep the sun to your back,you can tip the frame to see up the bottom of the cup. If they are going to raise a queen ,you will most likely see the white royal jelly up inside the cup.
Bees are prepared most of the time,in case something would happen to the reigning queen. That frame looks real good.

[saritacoleman]

Buzzbee...Gotcha. Nope...what is on this frame certainly does not look like that.

Thanks a bunch!

Sarita

[beekeeper1756]

What an incredible brood pattern.  You have and excellent queen and an excellent hive.  I agree, it's a queen cup.  First few times I saw those, I freaked out thinking they were trying to build a queen cell (which would mean either faulty queen or no queen, both heart stoppers for me).  I called my bee mentor and he explained what everyone else has shared, it's a queen cup.  It's preparation for an egg to produce a queen should they need it.  My mentor called them "threat cells" to the queen, i.e. get to work or we'll replace you.

Enjoy your bees, they are fabulous.  Wish I could say that all of my queens produce brood patterns like that.

good luck.
 8-)

[slacker361]

yes my new hive had them too bet they never swarmed, i like the idea of they build them just in case