Patrick M. O Hearn, Aztec, New Mexico. Patrick, I would have left the hive for week then looked again. Chances are you had a virgin queen or at least one not too old, if you had supercedure cells. Are you sure you had supercedure cells and not swarm cells? If a week later you still had no brood, then I would have introduced a new queen or at least some eggs and let them make a new queen, or else go to another hive that has swarm cells, cut out one very carefully, and just lay it on top of the bars where it wouldn't be crushed, and then they will have a new queen very quickly. You could have done this at any rate, the worst that would have happened is that the new queen cell would have been killed. bill fernihough HONEY i s sweeter then wine.