Bee brood in honey super

[Royall]

So I am wettsun21 (posting under my bf Royall) as to what the heck we should do about checking the frames in our honey super? If I had a glass hive I could see that there was brood and would leave them alone. But, when I take the frames out, the brood comb that's attached to the bottom box tears and the brood cells become destroyed! I am so upset by killing them and I don't know what to do. Yes, we are going to get an excluder, but in the meantime, when we check the frames by lifting them out we risk pulling apart brood :-(
What to do???????????

[Michael Bush]

It's just burr between the boxes.  You will kill them.  They are probably drone brood.  Not that I'm into purposefully destroying drone brood, but that's just the way it is.

[rwlaw]

You can keep the drone brood between frames to minimum if you put a foundationless or drone cell frame in the brood box. The bad thing is it turns the hive into a drone factory till the hive is satisfied with the drone population, which in turn turns it into a mite factory, be prepared to treat.