My hive had gone queenless, so I added a frame of eggs. They ended up making several queen cells. It has now been 26 days since adding the frame of eggs. I went in to take a look at the frame with the queen cells.
The frame was like looking at a different one. There was only 1 queen celll and it was open on the end, all of the other queen cells are gone. At first I wasn't sure if I had the right frame, but then I knew that I did.
Do they remove the queen cells after the queens emerge?
Yes.
fairly quickly after they emerge.