Bee, so that they can reproduce and assemble the food they harvest, they build slices with appropriate cells from the wax they produce. The predominant surface of the combs is a set of hexagonal cells and a certain one, usually limited, number of larger drone cells. Bee and drone cells are arranged in the comb on both sides with a slight upward deviation from the level. For rearing mothers, bees build the so-called. queen cells – cylindrical cells in a vertical or almost vertical arrangement, face down.
In beekeeping practice a distinction is made:
motherboards are not closed – in which the mother is in the larval stage,
basement motherboards – in which it remains up to the pupal stage,
queen cells on the bite – in which an educated mother matures and waits for the right moment to bite.
Additionally, bitten queen cells are also distinguished – with a damaged larva, with a pupa or a mature insect and bred queen cells – which the mother naturally left.
