Please understand the following caveats regarding photos of combs:
1) Lighting/shadows and lens distortion can play tricks on the eye
2) The temptation to grab the frame and twist to a better angle is ever-present
3) One odd photo does not make a positive diagnosis
With that said, I'd ask somebody more experienced to look at the colony, preferrably a local Inspector. I don't like what I'm seeing in the two cells highlighted.
Could be odd shadows, shaking hard or banging the frame, early-stage chalkbrood, or whatever, but those two larvae do not look correct.
Do not panic, but do get an informed 2nd opinion
Good advice Danbee but bare in mind that the larvae are probably from unfertilised eggs in worker cells and will more often than not be partially neglected.
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