[Michael Bush]

It always seems to me that if there's one swarm there's two or three. And they seem to be chaos. I think the bees get very confused and don't know which swarm is there's. Were all your swarms close together in time? Were they pretty well established in the hives or is it possible they got together shortly after you hived them? Maybe they were still confused and thinking in swarming terms and ended up all in the same hive from all the Nasonov phermone?

Wax moths don't kill a hive. They just destroy all the wax in a weak or dead hive.

 

[Michael Bush]

1 frame of honey and one of brood in warm weather usually will survive, but will be a bit slow to get going with that small a number of bees.

If they raise a new queen I woudn't expect to see eggs from the new queen until 25 days after you did the split. I always figure 28 days from egg to a laying queen and when you do a split they usually start with a 3 day old egg so that makes 25 days from the split.