In bee keeping does the brood super become used up during the summer?

Answer 1

I think we have a confusion of terms here. A brood box is usually the bottom box in the hive and it is here that the queen lays her eggs. A super is an extra box, often shallower than the brood box, which is placed above the brood box with a steel, plastic or wire grid between it and the brood box which allows the workers through, but not the queen because she is bigger. This prevents the queen from laying eggs in the super comb which used by the bees only for honey storage.

When a super is nearly full, the beekeeper could take it and extract the honey, but will usually just add another super on top so they can all be extracted at the same time. It is possible to end the season with three, four, or even more supers on top of the brood box.