I split off a nuc last Wednesday evening. The bees had 2 frames of mostly capped brood and a frame of honey (there was also some larva and eggs in some cells?). On Thursday night I installed a queen in a cage with candy and found she was released today and walking on the frames...just fine. Now, I saw what appeared to be some queen cells on the frames, but I wasn't sure becasue they were not large and pronounced like a peanut, but they were 3-4 times taller than a drone cell and drooping down, so they may have been queen cells. My questions is: since they appear to have accepted the new queen and she is walking around the frames without any issues...will she...or the bees get rid of those potential queen cells, or do I need to do that? I have never seen an actual queen cell and I didn't want to agitate the bees tearing something out, if they will deal with it on their own.
-Mike