It's pointed down, on the edge of the frame, it's bigger than the a worker cell, and it has an egg it in. The next question would be, what do I do? If the colony wants to swarm, it will swarm. Whatever's left may not be strong enough to make it through the winter. I am thinking about pulling the frame and trying to make a nucleus colony out of it. Any thoughts? I guess maybe the hive was doing too well.
I'll post a more brief reply here for anyone that sees this: a couple of queen cells is not swarm prep but very likely supersedure. Very risky at this late point to mate a queen but you can move the old queen into a nuc and keep her on hand just in case the new queen fails to mate.
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