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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