I checked my hive today 1 deep full of brood and honey except the end frames and 1 med about 70% full of honey and a little brood. I found 1 capped swarm cell on the bottom of a frame in the deep box. I added a queen excluder and 1 more med and scraped the queen cell off and stuck it between the frames of another hive that i cant find the queen or eggs but assorted sizes of brood inn. Do you think the hive will swarm or were they just crowded?
I'd have to see the overall state of the hive. Is it packed with bees? Is it very populated. "scraped" doesn't sound very good... "carefully cut" would be better...
Yes it's pretty packed i think, but this is my first hive so i don't have one to compare but from pictures and what i've read on this forum it sounds like it's pretty full. I scraped it with a sharp hive tool but next time i'll cut it with a razor knife.
If there is no room to expand, and bees wall to wall, then it's full and probably planning to swarm.