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. > > *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm