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Practical application: A colony that has been truly queenless for more than five days, and which does not have emergency cells in progress, will be unable to requeen itself, and is termed “hopelessly queenless.”

The typical signs of a hopelessly queenless colony are:

 Lack of cluster formation,

 The “queenless roar” when smoked,

 Jitteriness of the workers' wings,

 Defensive behavior by the workers,

 Frames containing scattered or only drone brood (Figure 5.28),

 Multiple eggs in the cells from laying workers (Figure 5.25).