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As @ericbeaumont Brother Adam observed that is cross between Italian and AMM were survivor/thrivers after the acarine outbreak. If I flooded an area with any type of honeybee the ferals would also change so they are not necessarily survivor/thrivers, they would adapt to the genepool. Any queens...

I agree, an argument could be brought forward that these are natures Buckfasts.

I breed my own as well as use Buckfasts, different apiaries of course. While the 25 minutes were interesting, the original Buckfast bee that survived the Isle of Wight disease was an Italian and AMM cross which was not mentioned. There is also portrayed a them and us scenario, I know many...

Are you a time traveller? What are the stores like? Hive still in swarm mode!

Everything should settle down now moving forward!

Wax moth will take advantage of a weak hive and you may have inadvertently killed the queen during manipulations, it happens. Varroa can hide underneath the abdominal segments of the bees, one reason why you haven't seen any and a hive that is now starving, plus the pathogens derived from...

Which queen, combined or queen and colony placed in vacated spot? The 2 cells will be supercedure cells, original queen didn't make the grade and is being replaced.

The images aren't great, but they look more like wax moth larvae. A better picture would be with them on the frame. Do the frames have silky webbing (wax moth) or have your stores started fermenting and the frames look glossy which would indicate small hive beetle.

No worries!

Primo: to begin with; first; of the finest quality. Prime swarm headed by old queen or virgin would be all of the above it is the biggest swarm.

I started beekeeping 43 years ago, as JBM the first swarm is a prime swarm, headed either by the old queen or virgin. The old timers who taught me said the same.

Is she still in there?

Once you move a hive leave the space empty and don't replace with a weak colony that the foragers from the previous occupation can come back to. The simple answer then, is that the foragers have balled an alien queen. Have you recently inspected the other hive with the possibility of 2 queens...

There is still time before the queen in the swarm starts laying. Did you add a test frame before taking the decision to add a queen and frames?

Prime swarms leave with virgin queens. If the beekeeper has clipped the old queen and she becomes lost while swarming, then the swarm goes back into the hive and leaves with the first emerging virgin queen. Also there could have been multiple virgin queens in the swarm, that are then whittled down.

The swarm had a virgin queen, that is why it is taking her so long to come into lay, also finding virgin queens can be difficult as their abdomens are triangular in shape. You introduced a queen into a queen right colony. Deduction from post 5.

You received 4 nucs earlier in the year, you have bought 2 queens for 2 planned splits. Are you a novice? My answer would be to do your planned splits as the queens are marked and you would be able to safeguard the queens in the original hives and the queens for the splits. Once the supercedure...

Let them raise a new queen is the easiest and cheapest option.

As long as it's not the Weather Girls doing the forecast, otherwise it will be raining men.

Just seen a forecast prediction of 50 days of rain for this year, last year was 40 days. C'est la vie!