>You need to open the hive and check for:
>a)  capped brood (dark rather than light which is the honey)
 
This is true on older combs, but newly drawn brood combs will
have very light brown cappings.  The difference between brood
and honey cappings is that the worker brood cappings have a
low dome over each cell and drone brood having a higher dome.
Honey cappings are flatter and can have a wrinkled appearance.
 
IMHO,
 
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