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Hello , This is my second year keeping bees and we have been splitting hives this spring using swarm cells and saving the old queen in separate nucs. On two hives , 1 with 2 deeps the other with 1 deep, we split them two weeks ago leaving capped queen cells in the hive box and using nucs for the other cells and queen. 6 days later my son came in and told us that we had some swarms hanging on 2 hives {they were not from any of our nucs} , I just thought that they were bearding until I got there and it was not a bearding they were very calm swarms hanging from the bottom screen , we put them into two nucs {we had 2 swarms on 2 different hive boxes} , three days they were right back at the same locations under the hive boxes we collected them from. Any ideas ?