Some hive shenanigans

[norgan]

Hi all, new to beekeeping and have one hive. It's gone well and since November has grown into 20 frames and now have a full ten frames of honey. I checked it and I see a couple of swarm cells and can see honey being backfilled around hatched brood. I prepared an ideal box with tem frames and undersupered it today hoping that will make them happy and not swarm. Do I have anything to worry about or will they be happy enough now? I only saw grubs and capped brood, couldn't see any eggs or small grubs. Worried the queen may have gone awol.

[azzkell]

Hi norgan, where you from?
Are you sure they're not drone cells. I got a little confused seeing drone cells for the first time.
How many are there? From my understanding normally around 15+ for swarming preps.
sometimes they will build queen cup cells and not use them, have 4 in one if my hives now for 6 weeks.

[BeeMaster2]

Norgan,
Welcome to Beemaster.
Do you see capped queen cells?
From your description, it sounds like they may have swarmed OR are about to.
If they did, leave the hive bee for 30 days to allow the queen to get established before your next inspection.
I'm questing that your somewhere south of the equator. Please add your location to your profile.
Good luck.
Jim

[norgan]

I'm in Sydney Australia. There are only two cells .

[Rurification]

Welcome to the forum.   You'll get a lot of great help here.

[BeeMaster2]

I'm in Sydney Australia. There are only two cells .

My observation hive has swarmed with only 3 Q cells.
Jim