Hi Bill,

You had mentioned that you had tried to attract feral bees recently and saw none.  If these were not your swarms, could it be that one of your neighbor started keeping bees and lost these swarms?

Rather than combining the two swarms, I would have hived them in separate boxes and checked for [marked?] queens on the frames in the morning.  Once the queens were laying, I would put them on top of each other with an excluder in between to get a strong colony in 5-7 wks.  The excluder could be removed at that point.

Waldemar


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