First Hive Opening

Hmmm.  Something is awry.  No brood.It was time to inspect the hive, two weeks from installation, and also refill the syrup. I had an assistant for hive opening, proud to be operating the smoker.The bees had built a lot of comb on the underside of the inner cover, concentrating on the center of their operations.I scraped that off and left it inside the top compartment with the syrup.  It was all filled with honey and dripping.  I'm sure they'll have cleaned it all up in days, probably transfer it back where it was.  We each ate a little nibble of honey comb- WOW!Every frame I pulled out, honey.  Honey.  More honey.  Where is the brood?  Of the four frames that I received, when I received them, three were brood and one was honey.  In two weeks, the bees have cleaned out the three brood frames and have nearly finished filling them with honey!  The one honey frame has had the honey moved elsewhere and has been cleaned, but no eggs, no brood! The fresh foundation frames I gave them have some lovely clean new comb started on them... still no brood.  There was an emergency queen cell, too, open and being attended.We saw a queen, so she is alive, but I'm not sure about well.      Klaus confirmed that all honey and no brood means the queen is not "working right".  The next inspection will tell if the queen we saw is the emergency replacement and if she has started laying eggs, or if it's the "old" queen and she's somehow a dud.No bees were injured during this inspection of the hive.What the bees really did with that comb on the inner cover.