> The chance of winter queen loss or undetected fall queen loss is halved
> (approximately) and that is typically around 10% to 15% in single queen
> colonies, averaged over numbers and time during the long winters in the
> north.
Correction. If the chance of queen loss was 15% in a single queen colony,
then the chance of both queens being or going bad in a two queen one might
be as low as 15% of 15% or 2.25%. YMMV, though.
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