This time let them be bees. Sounds like they are still queenless. Hopefully it doesn't turn into a LWH (laying worker hive).
Check on them in three weeks.
Check on them in three weeks.
If a virgin queen is present, they are quite unlikely to attempt to produce another one. Most likely, if they grew additional queen cells, the virgin you saw, did not remain with them. Virgin queens are well known for their efficiency at queen-killing. They do not tolerate other queens, not even queen cells.Trying to decide if the virgin that popped out when I was culling queen cells 1 week ago is in there. Worried I might have injured her. Found new crop of queen cells when I checked yesterday, didn't see virgin. (1 week later, they were mostly capped, no little ones). Thanks