I am going to need a step-up

I checked the top supers of all three hives today.  #2 and 3 were light and I saw no capped honey when I looked down into the frames.  However, #1 was heavy and had capped honey in 8/10 of the frames!  I added a 3rd super, checker-boarding three frames of capped honey into it.  Now I will need to use Olea's step up to work the hive.

I realized the above picture did not suffice, so I am adding this one.

I am slightly on tip-toe so my eyes are over the hive.
And this photo just to brag a bit.

Rio Samba

Where did it come from, and where did it go?

It really is swarm season!  Across the street, a swarm was captured in a bait box. 
Yesterday I saw this on the grape vine:

It was a pretty large cluster.  I assume it came from #2 since I had seen a swarm cell in there a week before.  But assumptions are often incorrect.
Today there was no activity around the entrance of my bait box so I figured they were not interested.  (It may be that the bait box is directly above 2 active nucs.)  So I called a bee guild member to see if he was interested in collecting it.  He called me back within a half-hour, and just before he called, the cluster had taken flight.  He could hear the buzzing over the phone.  I followed them down the street, where, instead of going into a hive as I expected, they clustered on a tree branch in front of Pauline's house.  This is approximately 150 feet from where they had been. 
About 2 hours later I went to see if the new owners were home yet.  They were not, nor were the bees.  Where they went is unknown- re-cluster or new home.
I do know that there are quite a few bee hives in this neighborhood.

Good news, bad news

Where to begin? 
First, some good news: spring is here and the honey flow is on.

Now an update: 5 days ago two fellow pickleball players and semi-beginning beeks, Terry and Karen, went into the hives with me.  We removed the old MAQs and spacers from all 3 hives and did an alcohol wash on #2 & 3.  (#3- 4, #2- 7)  The counts were higher than I wanted, but I think they are ok.  At least, I will not be treating again until after the honey harvest.  In #2, we took out a frame to look for the queen (Terry and Karen have never spotted their queen) and found an uncapped queen cell.  It had royal jelly in it, and since it was at the bottom of the frame, I figure it to be a swarm cell.  The edges of the cell go a little bent when taking out the frame, but I do not expect that will be a problem.  We did not look for any other queen cells.  So, #2 may swarm in the next week.  If it does, and I see it, I will call a bee guild member to collect it or perhaps it will go into the bait box.  All three hives looked healthy.
Now some bad news:  I looked in the window of Olea's hive a few days ago.  The population looked very small, smaller than I thought it should be even after casting two swarms.  The distal 12 or so combs were bare of bees and there was even an exposed, capped queen cell.

No nurse bees equals a dead pupa
So I went into Olea's today to see what was going on.  I started at bar 13 and worked all the way to the front.  The findings:
1.  Many wax moth pupae on top of the bars.
2.  The population of the colony seems to me ~90% drones.
3.  Very little honey in the frames I examined.
4.  One comb with small patch of capped worker brood and larvae, bar 11 or 12.
5.  No queen spotted.  No eggs seen.
Conclusion- Olea's may be queenless; the larvae I saw are drones.  Of course, things may be ok.  After all, I did not see any capped drone brood.  But being pessimistic, I worry that Olea's will succumb and possibly become a varroa bomb.  So... one of the combs I removed had, unbeknownst to me, been attache to the floor of the box, and it broke off.  It was old, dark comb and had only some beebread in it.  I used the space thus serendipitously provided to place a single MAQ next to the small patch of brood.
To end with some good news:  I checked the nuc containing the secondary swarm.  There was drawn comb on three of the five frames and capped brood on two of them.  The queen successfully mated and the nuc will probably make it.  I could use it to repopulate Olea's if it does not make it.