For some reason the splits that I made days prior began to throw swarms. The first swarm was from split 002. This was a slow moving swarm and landed in the neighbors blossoming trees. This swarm was recovered and cloistered for 24 hours.
About 4 hours later another swarm was thrown from a split made 3 days prior. While going through the hives Split 005 threw a swarm while I was standing right next to it. The swarm rose into the air and then took off at a very fast pace. I could not keep up with the swarm while it flew down the block.
My assumption was that these splits would not have any desire to swarm. These splits were made with frames which had capped queen cells and a loose virgin queen. So maybe once the queen was mated, this triggered a swarm event. I expected that the viable queen or workers would eliminate the unhatched queens. This did not happen, this environment triggered swarms.
