# Empty (?) Supercedure Queen Cups- lots of Drones- somethings afoot- Advice Please :-)

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**Created:** [October 1, 2016, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/empty-supercedure-queen-cups-lots-of-drones-somethings-afoot-advice-please/8726 "2016-10-01T10:16:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/empty-supercedure-queen-cups-lots-of-drones-somethings-afoot-advice-please/8726/9 "2016-10-05T12:30:25Z")

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Thanks for the ideas.

We already removed two frames a month ago and replaced them. The bees have filled out one face of each of the new ones.

We can’t move frames up as we have the flow super on. I think we’ll go ahead with a small split- especially if we see activity in the queen cells.

That way if it is swarm we will maybe prevent it and creat a new colony in one swoop. If it’s supercedure the main hive will have at least 5 new queens to choose from. There is good weather ahead after much rain the bees have a lot of pollen stored but little honey.

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