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Date: | Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:37:31 -0500 |
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Three days ago, I caught a medium sized swarm. I put it into a nuc box and
put it onto the stand with my other hives. Yesterday, when I opened the
box to put a hive top feeder on it, I was surprised to see the queen
walking around on the top of the inner cover. I then put her into the box.
To my surprise, another queen walked out onto the top of the frames. I
did not think that 2 queens would stay in the same box! I lifted a few
frames to prove to myself that there were 2 queens, and sure enough there
were. Could the swarm have contained 2 queens? Is this a common
occurance? Will some of the colony likely swarm out of the box with one of
the queens? I'm a second year beekeeper, so this was new to me.
... Jim
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