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on the june 19 I checked the hive 8 frames drawn out with 4 frames completely filled with capped brood except for the honey around top and corners saw queen and put all frames back together moving capped honey to outside and empty frames in before adding 2nd deep I saw queen come up and them back down between frames so I know I did not roll her but during my insection on sat 6-28 I noticed that they were drawing out 2nd deep and saw that some brood had hatched but it appeared that they filled the few empty brood cells with nectar and did not see any new larva and the bees do not have any cells ready In 2nd box this is the first time I had not seen the queen as she is a jet black carnolian and very easy to spot makes me worried because she ran out of space to lay and the space she hadin the brood nest is now filled with nectar it did not seem queenless very quiet and calm so should I wait and see or purchase a new Kona queen to replace the one that might have died/got killed/left I already had a late start due to first queen dead in pacakage & 2nd queen being a drone layer so the sooner I figure this out the better advice would be greatly accepted.also no queen cups or cells have been seen