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Do the following look like queen cells? On April 21st, I did an even split of my hive. On the 27th, I saw eight cells like the following. Are these capped queen cells? The look much smaller than the last one I saw. Today, May 5th, the cells I saw earlier look like this. They definitely...

So I made a split 10 days ago and wasn't expecting the queen cells they made to hatch and was going to cut out the extra cells. To my surprise, I saw one virgin queen running around the frames and one queens head popping out. The new virgin queen had already killed 11 other queen cells. I saw...