Females lay their eggs either in their normal burrows or in specially-dug brood chambers which are sealed when complete in the case of the genus " Neoscapteriscus " or not sealed in the case of genera " Gryllotalpa " and " Neocurtilla ".
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Shallow supers are not ideal for the brood chamber of the hive because the bees need to form a single compact sphere during the cold winter months a sphere that can expand and contract without being divided by a horizontal plane in the middle caused by the gaps between combs in multiple hive bodies.
