Yesterday we went into the hive and see if the new queen had been released. Hoping that she had, the hive had excepted her and she was busy laying eggs.
What we found was the queen and about 6 other bees all stuck in the queen box. They had chewed through the candy plug and somehow released a flap that kept them trapped inside.
The rest of the hive looks much the same. Messy, and now dead drone brood but still with lots of bees.
We shook the queen and all her cell mates into the hive, and closed it up for another week.
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