I only did a short inspection of the Beta Hive.
I removed the honey super, and opened up the top hive body. I started looking through the frames starting from the north side of the hive body. The outer most frame was full of honey, one side was completely capped the other was about a third capped. The next frame had some drone brood and worker brood. And it was in various stages of development, some had eggs, larva and some were capped. The next frame was a brood frame with both sides filled with eggs/larva and capped brood, same for the next frame. I only looked at four frames and it looked good. I did find a capped supercedure cell. I removed it, because I found a large number of fresh eggs. So it seems the girls are unhappy with this three/four week old queen. To me the new queen is doing great. Next week there should be a few thousand new bees hatching.
Wednesday I will look through the Beta hive a little more.
Beta Hive Images
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