hello every one, I am first year new bee keeper, yesterday in my inspection, I saw a queen cell at the bottom of the frame that is capped and another one in about the middle of the frame that is still open but I can see a large larvae in it and bees where attending to it, not sure if the photos I have uploaded will be visible correctly, but here is my questions, does that mean my bees have swarmed or about to swarm, also that capped queen cell , how long for it for the queen to come out and is it still time for it to be mated and start laying for winter bees, or should I just buy a queen

This showed up on my insta a while back (before winter) and have been kicking around the idea of getting this. Right now my two hives are in a normal bee hive box and a 55 gallon drum. The simplicity of this seems worth the cost but would like others to chime in. Flow Hive 2+ | The premium Flow beehive - Flow Hive US (honeyflow.com)

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Is anybody here using the Warre hive design and associated beekeeping techniques?

Soooo...I thought my colony died/absconded over winter There was very little activity around the hive as cold weather set in here in North Texas. I bought Brood Builder Patties from Dadant as a supplemental food (probably overkill in hind sight), and except for opening up the super to check on the food, I left the hive closed. I never saw any activity around the bee patties (as opposed to a LOT of activity when I was feeding them sugar syrup last spring). When I opened the super again about 2 weeks ago (after a few very warm days), there was STILL no sign of activity and it did not look like the bees had touched the bee food all winter. There WAS however a steady stream of tiny ants marching through the hive to the bee food. I thought, "okay, the colony must have gotten irritated by the ants and just absconded." Then yesterday evening -- just about sunset -- there was a HUGE cloud of bees that seemed to appear out of nowhere and the front of the hive was almost completely bearded over. (See video below) This is behavior that I never saw all last spring/summer/fall. Is the colony getting ready to swarm?