Bee-listers : I am taking some bees out of a wall with the bait hive and metal screen funnel technique. The bait hive is a 3 frame Nuc with laying queen. It has been a week and a half since I started and the single brood chamber is wall to wall bees with the new hivekeepers. I examined the hive today and noted 3 queen cells in the middle of the brood pattern. I have learned that these are superceedure cells. Swarm cells are at the bottom of the frames. I had a decision to make - Remove the queen cells or kill the old queen and leave one queen cell to hatch. I chose to remove the queen cells and keep the old queen laying. I also added a super to give the hive more room. My question is.... should I have killed the old queen and let the bees raise a new queen, hoping they woudl not swarm due to cramped quarters from the transitioning bees. BTW I have been keeping bees for 25 years and still have questions. :) Paul Cronshaw DC Cyberchiro and Hobby beekeeper Santa Barbara, CA