Beehive raising a new queen due to supersedure or swarming. Large peanut shaped capped queen cell on edge of brood comb.

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Photo credit: © Diana Meister / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: apiculture, apis, beehive, bees, beeswax, brood, cell, closeup, comb, entomology, fauna, hexagon, hive, honey, insects, lifecycle, mellifera, metamorphosis, nature, nurse, pattern, queen, replacement, reproducing, reproduction, requeening, stripes, supersedure, swarm, swarming, wax