The top brood chamber has 5 frames of capped brood and eggs. The remaining frames in this brood chamber are being worked by the bees for food storage and drawing out comb.
I took the top box off and set it aside once I knew the queen wasn't in there, and started looking through the bottom brood chamber.
I found what look like to me to be supercedure cells. I found about 6 of them spread out over 3 frames. Heres five photos of the situation...
So it seems the girls aren't happy with the queen's performance.
To me, she is doing great! Its three days shy of two months and the hive has filled a bottom brood chamber and half way filled a second brood chamber.
I'll have to do some research to see if I should requeen with known genetics or let the hive do what it does naturally and let them rear their own queen
I also found a frame that had eggs that I could actually see AND photograph, so I did.
I also saw a few bees hatching or whatever its called when they chew their way out of a cell.
I didn't see any signs of hive beetle or wax moth.
I did manage to find and photograph the queen.
Heres four photos of a frame from the top brood chamber.
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