The beekeeper brought a sixth hive over yesterday evening. This one behaved differently that the other five hives, and formed two clumps on the outside that stayed there all night. They look like two tiny swarms to me. I've sent this picture to the beekeeper and will be calling him soon. The clumps were still there at 6 am when it was 49 degrees out.
It was taken with a phone so it's not the greatest picture.

They could just be doing what is called bearding but I've not seen them do it like that. Could also mean there are too many bees in the hive.

Be sure to post what the beekeeper says when he checks them.

He just said they were very confused bees, having just been removed from their soffit home. It was a huge hive.

This morning there were no clumps.

LOL guess they were confused to move out of a mansion into a cottage hive.

Glad they are settling in.

We're thinking it had lost it's queen. It was a cutout from somebody's house and the queen could have been killed, hurt or just not gotten. Anyway, this is what we found in today's hive inspection: There were a lot of queen cells in this hive - there could have been twenty. . It looks like at least two hatched. Could they have made and hatched a queen in two and a half weeks?

Yes they could have produced queens in that length of time. Queens take 16 days from the time the egg was laid.