This is a very productive queen, with a great laying pattern.  The interesting thing to note here is sometimes even great queens get confused.  Can you find the cell with two eggs in it?

I picked this swarm up around 7:00 in the morning.  The folk's whose yard it was in called me late the night before, so I headed out early to pick it up.  It was one of my easiest swarm calls this year.  The swarm is doing great.  

I recently presented on honey bees to members of the MidAtlantic Chapter of the American Public Works Association.  It was a lot of fun presenting to folks who are not beekeepers.  This is a nuc I took to the conference.  In the background you can see the equipment that was setup for the Equipment Rodeo (think of it as a test of skill with large equipment).  This was a great hive, everyone saw the queen, and folks lined up to have their picture taken holding a frame of bees!  

These girls obviously over stayed their visa!  Sometimes a swarm will start drawing out comb if the stay in a location too long.  This could have been complicated as there was very little room to work, but I located the queen, got her in the box, and everyone else marched on in.