Best combination

[idg]

-a capped queen cell.

Err, one queen cell? Seems more like supercedure to me. Likely now to repeat, or possibly go into swarm mode so could be gone in five days.

As a response to an earlier post on the thread - what exactly has a small runty queen got to do with properly, or otherwise, mating? I am intrigued as to how your reasoning arrives at that conclusion, 'cos my ideas do not concur with yours.

The runty queen is no more! I have already replaced her with the bought in queen. Question now is what to do with hive 3. This hive is right across the box. Multiple queen cells. 2 I saw with eggs, but one capped. Capped one was on the bottom of a frame. I think they are already in swarm mode so my question is can I quell swarming and dispatch the queen at the same time.

 

[Hawklord]

You seem to be inspecting the bees well enough, so just how aggressive are they? Could it be because they need space or are in Swarm mode?