I have a few questions/comments:
 
First, I wanted to start a hive using ANP comb (supposedly fights Varroa)
I followed the directions to transfer the hive to ANP which basically
has you put a box of ANP on the bottom board, with bees and the queen, then
a queen excluder, then the old combs with the brood.  A few weeks later, after
the brood emerges, replace the upstairs frames with ANP and remove the queen
excluder. This hive was initially in 2 brood boxes and was temporarily in 3
boxes.
 
Anyway, after 2 weeks I had a look. The ANP comb were essentially abandoned,
no brood and only a few stray bees.  Also no queen.  The brood upstairs was
sealed brood, and no emergency cells.  So I needed a queen since they didn't
start one of their own.  So I ordered two (I decided to split the hive at
the same time)  I put the hive back together the way I found it except I
didn't replace the queen excluder.
 
Anyway when the queens showed up I opened up the hive and sure enough, lots
of young brood.  I soon found the old queen!  The ANP comb was still ignored.
Where was she?
 
What I then did was to take most of the frames and set them up in 2 new hives.
with the 2 new queens (so I wound up splitting them 3 ways).
 
Anyway I removed the cork from the candy end, poked a nail through the candy
and put the queens with bees in the hives.  A week later I opened them up
and both queens were still in the cages, and the candy was untouched.
 
Does the candy trick work?  I ask this because last year I placed a new
hive on a friends yard with a new queen and a home-made package.  I was
unable to get back there for 3 1/2 weeks.  The poor queen was still in the
cage!  The candy was untouched then as well, and all attendants in the cage
were dead.
 
Also one of the hives with the new queens had 2 queen cells started when I
opened it up.  The larva were rather young.  There was no other young brood.
How large would a queen larva be assuming the egg was laid just before I
opened the hive up exactly a week before?  I am wondering about an earlier
thread asking whether bees moved eggs and someone commented that a caged
queen may have laid eggs through the screen and bees placed them in cells
and started queens.
 
-Mike