Queen Cells + Royal Jelly
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When the queen is removed or killed in a colony, workers will change worker cells into 'emergency queen cells'. These cells may not have the best quality. THe five cells here are all pretty small, for example, perhaps because workers did not use the youngest larvae available. May 30, 2003.

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