I'm in south Louisiana and its nice and warm here. I decided to check on the hive about two weeks ago and everything looked fine. Lots of capped honey but no brood which I expected. I did notice quite a few small hive beetles so I did some research and decided to make a screened bottom board with an oil pan. once completed I decided to go back and replace the old bottom board with my new screened one with beetle trap. since I was going in I decided to look around again and I noticed several, maybe 10-15, possible supersedure cells on the face of several frames in the upper box. All were opened on the bottom since no brood are in the hive at all. Could this mean the queen is gone?