I was intending to split up the two brood boxes that the German bees are in and had set up anther hive station and brood box to take thew queen. The top box was stores and empty frames with a feeder bucket on above the crown board. There was no brood in the top box and no sign that the queen had been up there.
There was no queen in the bottom box either - but there were plenty of queen cells and evidence that they were in the process of being torn down. One cell had hatched but there was no sign of any kind of queen.
To cut a long story short there are now three boxes with queen cells in them
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