Mark,

I don't have any references beyond vague memories of articles in the
journals.  But, I have many times used 2 queen systems to get early
large populations in our early, short season in Alaska.  Beginning with
packages I simply separate the two colonies with a queen excluder after
a few days of separation with a screen board.  Never a problem, but when
the flow begins I remove on queen into a nuc colony and get rid of the
excluder.

Tom Elliott


> can anyone tell me what piece of apparatus is used to separate the queens in
> a 2 queen hive? i can't find any references in my usual beekeeping books. a
> jpg or gif wld be nice.....
>
> thanx,  mark

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"Test everything.  Hold on to the good."  (1 Thessalonians 5:21)

Tom Elliott
Chugiak,  Alaska
U.S.A.
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