Brood above the queen excluder

[2hives]

I'm asking for some comments on why I'd find capped and uncapped brood in the med. super above my queen excluder and double-deep brood chamber. It first I thought I had a queen above the excluder, but found no queen cells. I'm thinking that the excluder I'm using is allowing the lower queen to get through. Any thoughts and suggestions on what to do with this is appreciated. The good news is that this queen is very prolific. Very tight and consistant pattern. Just about every cell has larvae or a capped worker. No spottiness at all.

[Gregg]

I found the same thing over the weekend. Very strong hive with 5-6 supers full. Went down to the brood chamber (long story) and no brood or eggs. My first thought was that it was queenless, but that didn't make any sense with that strong of a hive and that much honey. Eggs & brood in the honey supers, so I just removed the excluder. You could also hunt for the queen and put her back below the excluder, but I didn't have the time to do that.

[loggermike]

Its not unusual to find brood above the excluder.Whenever I pull a yard of honey ,there will usually be a few supers with brood.Thats why I give each super a quick look to spot it.Young bees hatching and crawling are a nuisance while trying to extract.
Either the queen got through the excluder or a virgin came in through one of the vent holes in the supers.Once a queen slips through the excluder she will stay in the supers in my experience.If there are two queens in the hive (eggs above and eggs below-no time to hunt for queens) and the frames are good brood quality,I like to slip a nuc board (divider board)in place of the excluder.Then come back later with a lid and bottom board.
If the bees were run out with bee-go before the brood was discovered ,then a DIFFERENT excluder is slipped under the supers and left to be taken off later,after the brood hatches out.
Anyhow, thats how we deal with it.