Welp. We did some bee work about two weeks ago in the warm spell. Saw a lot of signs of prepared swarm activity.
Threw on a honey super for each to give them room.
Cold snap. Fast forward to today. We had numerous capped queen cells large numbers and a shrunken down queen. She was ready to get gone.
We split the brood and split the capped queen cells, destroying extra cells.
Two capped cells for each deep. We then put the queen in a nuc box with some brood and some bees of her own.
If it works we just grew two new hives and will place the old queen in another super of her own.
