I am trying to discover the correct hyphenation and/or comma placement for the following sentence relating to honey bees:
When she hatches out of her egg, she is placed into a royal jelly filled hexagon cell called a queen’s cup.
I am inclined to punctuate as follows, but don't know if this is correct or why:
When she hatches out of her egg, she is placed into a royal-jelly-filled, hexagon cell called a queen’s cup.
If it is correct, can someone explain why? I believe the royal-jelly-filled part should be hyphenated because those words are related and would modify "cell." However, I am not as sure about placing the comma before "hexagon" or what the rule would be there, since it is an additional modifier of "cell."
I was previously pointed toward this post:
However, the examples in that post all seem to follow the two, or three word compound modifying the noun, such as brick-oven pizza or file-system-related software. In my case, I've got a fourth, unrelated modifier to deal with.
If my sentence were simply "When she hatches out of her egg, she is placed into a royal-jelly-filled cell called a queen’s cup" I would be satisfied with the hyphenation where I've placed it.
However, my sentence is actually:
When she hatches out of her egg, she is placed into a royal jelly filled hexagon cell called a queen’s cup.
Royal-jelly-filled is related. Hexagon is not. It's a separate adjective to describe the cell. Royal-jelly-filled-hexagon does not seem correct, so where then, does the hyphenation end? Does a comma belong after "filled"?
