Ok so I inspected the 3 hives.
As expected the 2 package hives are continuing as before. No swarm cells. Boxes still have some space for them to draw more comb.
The nuc however has about 8-10 swarm cells. I thought when I checked a couple of weeks ago there were no swarm cells. I also did not see the marked queen today. The bees seemed to be putting in more honey than anything else. There are still 4-6 empty frames so I don't know why they would swarm. I think I might have seen an unmarked queen, but I'm not sure. Oh well I'll just wait and see if there is more brood next week.
Maybe the swarm in the tree will move into the box I put in the yard. Then I'd have 4 hives which would be crazy, but interesting.
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