Traveling queen, pollen balls and varroa mites

Went into the hive with Maidi, who took the photos.
There were some bees in the top super, but no comb had been drawn. We saw the queen in the middle super on a frame with comb but nothing in any of the cells. When I took the middle super off, I had to be very careful that the queen did not drop off the frame. So, after I had inspected all the frames, I checked that she was still there (she was), replaced the frame, lifted the super and placed it carefully on the inverted lid with the frame she was on over the lid. Then I went into the brood box. There I saw a queen! I can't have two queens- she must have dropped into the brood box in those few seconds between replacing the frame and lifting the super.
There was lots of brood, in both the brood box and the middle super. I saw eggs with the use of the hand lens. There were two queen cells, but now I know that Russians have a tendency to build queen cells without signifying supersedure or swarming. I only saw one Italian in the hive. There were a small number of drone cells. I rearranged the 9 frames in the brood box, pushing them close together and leaving gaps at the edges.
I saw a small insect run quickly across a frame. Could this be a small hive beetle? I had set up the hive with a screened bottom and a beetle trap. I thought this would be a good time to clean it up and look carefully for beetles and mites.
I had pulled out the trap a few times before. It had lots of debris on and in it.The yellow stuff is pollen. You can see the balls that have been knocked off the bees legs and then fell through the screen. The white stuff is wax, either flakes from their wax glands that looks like fish scales or crumbly debris. There are also a lot of bee parts, legs, antennae, bits of exoskeleton . There is vegetable oil inside the trap, so the pollen gets mushy. We tasted some of the pollen balls; after all, people pay a lot for bee pollen at health food stores. It tasted a bit sweet.
I then carefully searched the tray with my loupes and the hand lens. I did find one small beetle, but it clearly wasn't a small hive beetle. I did however find a lot of varroa mites! A new worry!

I need to do a mite count. First, I cleaned the tray and replaced it. I'll check it in a few days and count mites. There are many ways to evaluate infestation. Maybe I'll use the sticky paper. For sure I'll try the powdered sugar. I already have some drone brood from the old transplanted frame. I opened each cell, pulled out the larva and examined for mites. 7 of 40 had mites, 17.5%. This is too high, I think. Next week I'll do a sugar shake count and probably treat the hive. I'll use the powdered sugar and drone frame technique to avoid any miticides. Perhaps, and I hope so, the count really isn't as high as it looks.