My bee-mentor and I are doing our first ever removal from a chimney on a house and are trapping the bees out. (I think that's what you call it here -- using a mesh cone over the entrance and a bait hive.)
The bees are raising new queens in the bait hive and there is still a large colony inside the chimney. Should we be removing the new queen cells? Or do we want the bait hive to become queenright?
Apologies if this is addressed somewhere else... I did have a darned good look around before posting this, but couldn't find anything definitive.
Thanks,
Dan