About 5 weeks ago I started trying to remove a hive from the hollow cornerstone of a house. I made a screen funnel and placed a 10 frame hive with three frames of brood/eggs about 7 inches from the funnel exit. By 4 July the bee population exploded so I added another super of frames along with pollen substitute/honey pattie. I also added another frame of brood/eggs as I saw no signs of queen cells. This last Wednesday I went back and all the brood had hatched, no eggs but there were two new & empty queen cells. A friend of mine thinks the hive body is too close the the "wild" hive and that the wild queen's phermones are keeping the bees in the "domestic" hive from starting a new queen and suggests I move the hive further away from the cone exit.. Do you agree? If not what do you suggest to get the hive queened? God Bless, Kelley Rosenlund ([log in to unmask]) Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A.