Split!
Art came over Thursday night between thunderstorms and we pulled out frame 7 and sent it home with him. There was what we thought was a queen cell there during the last inspection and thought it best to allow the cell to mature in another hive.
Working with bees at night was very interesting. The hive was full of them and they were quite docile. When I put a replacement frame in for #7, it sane in slowly under its own weight as into molasses.
We looked in the new hive for the queen, just in case she hitched a ride. We couldn’t see here and Art reported the next day that she was not there. (I found her at home later).