are these queen or drone cells

[jpcows]

One of my hive has lost it's queen or I can not find her. It has only a few bees which are working these cells. Can anyone tell ne what may be happening? image in dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hmjihmyw4l1l ... I4-1BArJta

[Jacobs]

Those are drone brood cells. You either have a drone laying queen or you have a laying worker hive. Are you seeing multiple eggs in cells and eggs laid on top of pollen? If so, it is the result of laying workers.

[jpcows]

suggestions

[Wally]

Call me or another member and have him come look. If that is your only hive, I think it may be doomed, unless there are many more bees on other frames.

[jpcows]

Thank everyone for help, after reinspecting the hive it was easy to see cells with double and triple eggs in them. I sealed the hive and moved it several hundred yard and dumped. Any good worker I hope will make it back to the other hive. The laying worker will become chicken food.

[Wally]

First, if it's a laying worker, there are many of them, not just one. If it is a drone laying queen, then she will be rejected by the other hive.

Second, 10 feet would have been just as good, maybe better.