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One of my hives is queenless, but raising a new queen. Can I get them to raise more queen cells if I add a frame of new eggs; or once they have a couple of queen cells going, will they not feel the urge to make any more? The hive only has capped brood remaining, so they have been queenless for about 8-10 days. One queen cell is capped and the 4 others will be capped soon as well. I moved all but one queen cell over to a nuc so I can increase my chances of getting a mated queen back in the hive. I was just wondering if I could get more queen cells going, that were 8-10 days later than the oldest one, so they wouldn't be pipping when the 1st queen hatched out and goes looking for her sisters to kill.