Are my Bee's Ready to Swarm

[kevinva]

It is a warm day, about 84 degrees, and I just got done checking my hive. No Swarm Cells that I could find, I have extra supers on top, so are they just warm? Trying to figure out if these guys are going to take off. This box was a brand new 3lb package this year, the top box is full of honey and I have 3 supers on top with two of them 3/4 full. They haven't started on the 3rd.

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[MWillard]

Bearding like that is usually related to two things in the hive, temperature (too warm) and space (not enough room).

[kevinva]

Should I extract some honey and give them some new frames? Move the empty supers down for them? Currently I only have frames with foundation sitting around.

[RayMarler]

They look good to me, from the sounds of it you've still got room for them in the hivestack. The bearding looks normal to me for a strong hive in the summer. I'd wait and extract the honey supers as they are capped and put the wet extracted frames back on the hive.

[topdog17]

maybe pop the top and move on;)

[BEES4U]

How long has that queen excluder been in place.
Ernie

[kevinva]

Queen excluder has been on for about 2 - 3 weeks.