[Mila North]

I did my inspection yesterday and found these... unmistakably multiple eggs and even multiple larvae per cell. I found these only one ONE frame at the bottom in just one part. The weird thing is the rest of the hive looks super healthy. Lots and lots of fresh perfect looking eggs and larvae of all sizes, beautiful brood pattern, no other signs of any issues. Any insight into why this could be happening and what I should do about it, if anything?

Thank you!

[Greg V]

Requeening the hive may have triggered the laying workers too (did you not requeen recently?).
As long as the properly laying queen is present here and now, her pheromones should suppress any further bad developments.
Bees should clean up this mess. 
I would not worry if the hive appears normal in general and the queen seems to be present.

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[Mila North]

It did swarm  but it was back on June 2nd, so that's why I was surprised to see this happening yesterday. Does this still make sense? 

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[Joseph Bessetti]

Yes, it all makes sense.  It is not unusual for laying workers to develop while a hive is requeening, and the small patch of laying worker eggs and larva that you took a very nice photo of is something I've seen many times before too.  

Greg is correct.  This behavior will be repressed by brood from the new laying queen and eventually stop.  Nothing to worry about.

Joe

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[Greg V]

Sure it does.

When it takes 3-4 weeks for a colony to properly requeen itself after the swarm, this may happen.
I've had cases where the young queen was present but wouldn't start laying for 4-5 weeks.
The bees would eventually start behaving as if queenless.

As long as the proper laying queen is present, the hive should right itself

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[Joseph Bessetti]

Note, laying workers develop due to absence of brood/brood pheromone, not lack of a queen/queen pheromone. 

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[Mila North]

Wonderful thank you!!

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[Greg V]

In theory - yes.
I agree, the "smell" of the open brood is the most powerful factor, "per the books".

However, in the demonstrated case here, we see how the normal and abnormal brood coexisting side-by-side (which should not happen, in theory).
So, the presence of normal brood did not immediately stop the abnormal behavior; both activities continued in parallel.

Still, the abnormal behavior should stop soon enough.
I would be not worried.

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