As I introduced a new queen last night by an amalgamtion of a nuc , used to
raise her, and the target hive I noticed what appeared to a number of
emergency queen cells in the queenless hive that was to receive the new
queen.
 
The hive had been made queenless approximately seven hours earlier when I
dispatched the previous monarch & dropped her in the bottom of the hive.
 
My query relates to what the new queen does with the emergency queen cells?
Does she leave them thus leaving the chance of supercedure, or does she
tear them down like a virgin queen who has just hatched would? Or do the
worker/nurse bees simply not procede with the queen cell once the new queen
is established?
 
I intend to check in the next 10 days just to make sure that there are no
queen cells as the old girl generated a strong but willing bunch who I am
looking forward to seeing the end of....
 
Thanks for your thoughts on this matter,
 
Regards
 
Paul Roberts
Brisbane, Australia