How about this... ??
There was brood above the (faulty?) excluder, which was then isolated 
above two new supers,
and/or maybe the excluder was not in place until the two new supers were 
placed.
In either case, the top super is from laying workers (?), and the queen 
failed.
 - OR, the top brood is from a older, trapped, virgin queen.
   - John Edwards

Jim Smith wrote:
> ...
> Above the plastic queen excluder, and in the 3rd (top) super the same brood pattern was found, except it contained less brood. This was above two supers with honey. 
>
>   

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