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will bees make queen cells w eggs given to them if there is a young virgin in hive?

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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
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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.
Sounds like a supercedure, I agree with Beeman I would let them sort out which queen they want. I have a hive that just requeened itself, I found queen cells the last of July and during an inspection this morning I found a beautiful fat yellow gold queen. Check your hive on the first weekend of September and you should have a beautiful queen as well :).
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
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.
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