I have three hives from last year. I treated them with Apigard this weekend. Two of the hives had a great pattern of capped brood and larvae. The third hive had just several small patches of capped brood and the population was lower than the other two hives. This hive was very strong a month earlier. The capped brood was very tall, so I assume they were drones laid in worker cells. I am in Cincinnati, OH. My other two hives swarmed in April and May. I am trying to decide if this weak hive might have swarmed recently (mid July) or if the queen died or had some problems and the hive population is just slowly shrinking as workers die off? When a hive swarms, should I still find some normal capped brood from the old queen who left? I did not see any old open swarm cells as I did see in the other two hives after they swarmed. Thanks, Jim