Queen laying in super

[Maxine450]

I took out the queen excluder cause the bees just weren't going up in there and now there are eggs in 2-3 of the frames. Is this bad? Should I do something? They are sure taking their sweet time to fill out the super.

[Ross]

Congratulations, you have a good queen.

[RayMarler]

You don't have enough nectar flows for the bees to go into the super to store honey. You removed the excluder so now the bees are moving the brood up because not enough nectar coming in to be able to store honey up. This would be my guess. Unless you are in agriculture farmland, August and September tend to be a bit dry for the bees in the Ca Valley.

[Maxine450]

I live in the bay area. The weird thing is I keep seeing them bringing in pollen. You're telling me they're actually taking all the larva in the cells in the bottom box and moving them all up? Weird.

[Lil Grain of Rice]

No Maxine, that previous answer just wasn't worded very well. The bees aren't actually moving any larvae around. Your queen is obviously not wasting a moment and is moving around (she got legs, and she knows how to use 'em....couldn't resist ) filling empty cells.

[RayMarler]

No, no, no one is moving any eggs around. If there's not enough nectar flows to be storing honey above the brood, then as the brood hatches and there is space above, the queen starts moving up laying higher and higher up. Bees like to keep the upper edge of the broodnest bordering the lower edge of the honey.

[Ross]

In other words, its not a problem. If and when you have a significant flow, the bees will backfill the hatching larva and the queen will be pushed back down. Until then, you are getting more bees and no swarming because the queen has room to lay.