I took this photo earlier this week. You will note that there are some cells that have multiple eggs, or eggs placed oddly in the bottom of the cell. This sometimes happens when a queen first starts laying following her return from her mating flight. But, happily, she'll get the hang of her job pretty quickly. In the meantime, her attendants will sort it all out.
There are some who believe the workers will move the eggs to a new cell, but others believe the extras are just recycled as food.
The following photo is a picture of the new queen a few days later. You can see that she is doing marvelously! She is marked with a white dot to let me know she is a 2026 queen.
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