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In a so-called walk-away split to make an additional colony, the recommendation is often to leave the queenless part alone for 30 days until the queen is laying. But is it better to reduce the QCs produced to the best one or two after 8 or 9 days, as recommended here? As the bees were not initially in swarm mode there should be little chance of them wanting to swarm on multiple cells so leaving alone should not cause swarms and would allow them to choose the best queen.