Lisa:
You have a 2nd year queen.
She has already laid strongly to establish a strong supply of winter bees, so
the spring bees will be her 2nd effort at heavy laying.
I was going to write a great deal about this, but now I don't have to; because
Dave Green and Lloyd Spear are at the top of the ladder in good knowledge.
Perhaps the only thing left out was "What was the race of queen that you put
in last July?"  I have all Carniolans, switching from Italians 51 years ago.
Carniolans "bad point" is they have such a high propensity to swarm, they
might swarm on a warm Christmas Day.  But they are the BEST race for
Maryland's ONLY and very early and short nectar flow of April 15 to June 1st
and nothing after that until next year.
Hence, I requeen my 100+ colonies every September 1st, so no queen is ever 13
months old, and I have almost no swarms.
Good Luck!                                                              George Imirie