Alright, so I went into the hive today and got a picture of the suspected queen cell. Do you think it's a queen cell? Regardless of whether it's a queen cell or not, something is definitely wrong with the queen in this hive, if she's there anymore at all. When I went in the hive this morning I saw no eggs, more drones than before, and the hive was not full of bees. Also they aren't drawing out comb anymore. I was unable to pull 3 frames in the brood box because they were getting too aggravated with me, but with the exception of those frames I saw no other potential queen cells, and I was able to pull those frames last week and saw nothing (though 2 of them are cross-combed and not able to be separated, so there's the chance there is something between those two that I can't see). There's still a good bit of capped brood, mostly worker but some drone, and the uncapped larva that are present look healthy and white. The brood pattern looks a little different than before, the capped brood is sort of a U-shaped crescent, with capped honey sort of scooping down into the brood pattern from the top bar, but the pattern is compact with hardly any cells missed. They seem to be backfilling some of the empty brood comb with honey. My previous mentioning of this hive acting testier than usual has continued, with them flying out at me when I just put on a jar of syrup. When in the hive today they seemed almost panicky, reacting very strongly to being smoked, but I had to smoke them more often than usual, and they were louder and just generally seemed more upset. There are still foragers bringing in pollen and nectar, but no where near the traffic level of my other hive, which is thriving and growing like crazy right now. I'm also suddenly not seeing as many hive beetles as I was. I had been catching about 10 in Swiffers weekly, and today there was only 1, and I saw none running about the hive. So here's the questions: Given all that information, do you think that this hive is queenless now? Do you think the thing in the pictures is a queen cell?