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I installed two nucs on May 19th. One of my hives seems to be coming a long great, the other I have always had concerns about. Especially since there seems to be a lot of SHB in that one as well and it seemed much weaker than the other.
About a week and a half ago, I had inspected the weak hive and noticed a lot of drone brood. Which I suspected was because it was queen less, yet there seemed to be brood so I wasn't too concerned just yet.
Flash forward to today. I opened up this hive and again there were tons of SHB. Then I noticed two queen cells as well as what looked like two other small ones that weren't on the bottom on frames yet were off to the side in the middle of the frames.
My question is this, do I just leave all those other queen cells? From what I understand, the first queen that hatches kills the other queen cells. Or do I just leave it alone?
About a week and a half ago, I had inspected the weak hive and noticed a lot of drone brood. Which I suspected was because it was queen less, yet there seemed to be brood so I wasn't too concerned just yet.
Flash forward to today. I opened up this hive and again there were tons of SHB. Then I noticed two queen cells as well as what looked like two other small ones that weren't on the bottom on frames yet were off to the side in the middle of the frames.
My question is this, do I just leave all those other queen cells? From what I understand, the first queen that hatches kills the other queen cells. Or do I just leave it alone?