They survived-unbelievable! Got a call from the yard I dumped the mean hive (broken into 7 small pieces, killed the queen and gave queen cells) she said it was swarming. I found the queen cup encased in wax, 6 rouge queen cells, two open, one torn down the side, bees all over the outside of the hive. I swept all the bees from the outside of the hive to a spare deep with 3 frames from the original hive. I slid the original hive over 2?, I cut out queen cells in sets of pairs and put one in the original hive, one in the center. During inspection I found a queen with her head in a cell, still small but a queen. I dumped her into the far hive.
Son got a bee up his pants leg (got in his tall boot, under the pants, up the leg) nailed him in the calf. After a couple of minutes had to send him back to the truck, the front of his jeans looked like a pin cushion. We do not put that much smoke to a ham and it was not stopping it. We parked 50 yards away and he took the bees along.