Hi Tim

 > there were about ten percent double
 > queens, but I saw no link to aggressive behaviour.

Is there a linkage between two queens and aggression in Scuts ?

I have experience of two queens (and occasionally 3), but in AMM this 
seems to be way that the colony uses two queens that each lay at a 
slower rate (sometimes one will take a rest for a few days) this 
behaviour wears out the queens at a slower rate and allows for a longer 
time to elapse between the need for out crossed matings (which may only 
occur infrequently, due to localised weather).

Certainly there is no aggression in workers due to two AMM queens, if 
anything the reverse is true, but I do not think that the docility is 
related to two queens either (unless it is a manifestion of higher 
levels of queen pheromone).


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