Checked one of my swarm hives to see if it was ready for a super and...

[Beeracuda]

found a bunch of supersedure cells and 2 or 3 swarm cells. 



I cut the cells out and when I cut one out, I saw a queen moving.  Jill took all the cells to the garage and when she got there, one of the queens marched out.



With my treatments going on, I haven't gotten into the hives like I wanted.  I sure don't want this hive to swarm.  I didn't find the queen, but that doesn't surprise me.  There were a ton of bees and I am terrible at spotting them.  I picked up a package for another hive yesterday and bought a couple of queens, too.  One I am using in another hive.  I don't really have  a spot for the other one yet.  Should I just requeen this hive or maybe split it.

Also, when I got to looking at the other cells in the garage, I found this one.



She is about to emerge, too. 

Since I already have mated queens, I am going to let these swim in a little alcohol to make some swarm lures.  How much alcohol should I put these in?  Looks like I am going to have 4 queens in the pool.   

[Perry]

I would put her right back in the hive you took the cells from. Never cut out cells, especially when they have been capped like that already. Odds are the original queen has already flown the coop with a bunch of bees (swarmed).
By cutting out the cells you may have prevented the bees from rearing the replacement.

[Beeracuda]

Perry, I would not have cut them out if I didn't already have a mated BeeWeaver queen sitting here that I can put in the hive.  Also, I really don't think that hive has swarmed.  Both the top and bottom boxes were full of bees.  They are nothing like my other two hives that did swarm.  We managed to get one of those swarms to stay and I am getting ready to add another deep onto it.

Because my curiosity got to me, I opened up the cell in the bottom picture.  That was a worker in there, so I am guessing that queen emerged in the hive.

[Jen]

Hey Beer    that what I was told, and did, when my queens came in. To strip the frames of anything that looked queen related... wait 24 hours and introduce the queens. So far, two out of three queens have made it just fine.