> decided it needed a new queen, before the Carniolian queen had completely > taken over the hive.--For what happened is a queen that appears to lay > both!!. This is a hive that has only been allowed to requeen itself, and yet > this hive still has the mix of Italians and Carniolians after 4 or 5 years. > He is sure its a newer queen at this point, as he marked the older queen and > then this newer queen. I am wondering if anyone has heard of such-and to be > honest-what the results might be. > Queens mate with multiple drones. If there were a number of both Italian and Carniolian drones in the area when the queen went on her mating flights then this is not so unusual. -- | Public schools are just another form of welfare. Keep your kids out of the welfare system! AA4YU http://www.beekeeper.org http://www.q7.net