Well, eureka. I went into both halves of the split and found an estimated kajillion capped queen cells between both hives. So I pulled some frames of honey, pollen, capped brood, and queen cells to make two more one-medium-super splits. If I had more equipment I would've just kept going, but that's all the bottoms and covers I had. So now from that one original overwintered Russian hive, I have 3 splits from it, one being a 50/50 split, and 2 are several frames plus capped queen cells from their bigger sister hives.
So we'll see what happens. I went thru the brood chambers and pulled out the frames of pure honey/nectar and put them elsewhere in the hive, but left the capped brood down there, so hopefully when a queen hatches the hives will not be honey bound and will not afterswarm. If they do, well I have those 2 new splits now, maybe they'll work.
It sure doesn't seem like my bee population is on the decrease, but I'm sure that must've been my swarm in my pine tree, there aren't any neighbors too close by and I'm pretty sure no one in my immediate area has bees. Plus I have capped queen cells, so that's probably a sure sign that they already swarmed. They sure did leave a lot of provisions, tho, which is great.
No honey this year. Again.
One other thing, it did look like one of the queen cells had hatched, it was opened on the bottom. Not the kind of opening like before they cap it, but kind of an emerged kind of opening. Don't know what that means.
And there was larvae in both hives, I assume that was there from when they swarmed on Monday. Today is Sunday.