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Re: Dividing colonies with QEs
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Justin Kay <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:24:27 -0400
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> My question then is, as long as there is a double QE and honey frame
> barrier  (say 10) between the queens will the bees from the two colonies
> allow the queens to coexist or will they eventually kill one of the queens?


No experience with it myself, but Ray Nabors has been doing this
successfully, and writing about it in ABJ, and he hasn't reported any queen
loss issues.

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