[richhitch]

I have a swarm I caught about 2 weeks ago. It is in a single 10 frame lang. I checked it today and there are about 4 maybe 5 queen cells about half way up on a frame. there were some many bees not sure if there were more cells. What should I do. Help

 

[alpha6]

Leave them. Those are supersede queen cells not swarm cells. Either your queen from the swarm got damaged or something is not right and they are raising another.

 

[RZRBCK BEE]

I agree. I just learned that lesson myself.

 

[MSbeekeeper]

which brings up a good question, how to tell what kind it is? I always read that swarm cells will be on the bottom of frames and supercedure cells will be from the middle to top. Well this year I thought I had supercedure cells as there were queen cells up top and the hive ended up swarming.

 

[Joseph Clemens]

The best way to know what kind of queen cells the bees are growing, is to see what comes of them. If they use them to replace a failing or unsuitable queen - they were supersedure; if they use them to replace a lost queen - they were emergency queen replacement; if they use them to swarm, then, of course, they were swarm cells.