A suggestion for future when faced with multiple queen cells. This has worked very well for me, and I consider it to be far less risk to the queen cells than cutting them out and attempting to move them. I have used plastic foundation, which works well for this method.
Purchase some heavy gauge screen mesh, that is heavy enough to take a shape and can be pushed into wax comb. Obtain or purchase a small muffin pan or similar. Obtain a dowel or object about the diameter of the muffins. Cut mesh squares or rounds that exceed the diameter of the muffins by about the length of the depth of the muffins, on all sides. In other words large enough to be pressed into the pan and still have screen sticking up above the surface of the pan. Press these mesh cuts into the pan and trim off any corners or high places so that the new queen cup cages can sit on a flat surface and not have gaps big enough for bees to get under.
Place these cup cages over queen cells. This protects them from any queens that emerge un-caged, and traps them for harvesting at your convenience. I have harvested up to 8 or 9 queens from a single frame in this manner. :thumbsup:
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