Hey Bee-L'ers. I had a shock on Sunday when the temps got above 60 and i began cracking lids... of 18 colonies i had bees flying from all of them and i felt very proud... upon opening the 8th box which had been a colony that was queenless (at least i thought it was) last october, and had been combined with a queenright colony, i was proud to find my (red marked) queen along with 1 frame of eggs and a small patch of capped brood. I moved to the next frame and found a 2nd (red/marked) queen as well. these two had been in the same box for the past 3 months. evidently, the colony that i thought was queenless was in fact not so.. But for the two to have survived together for 3 months or more was striking. has anyone had this experience or seen this before... I know that a supersedure queen may hang with the mother for a while, before the old lady is disposed of but this takes the cake for me.. i placed one queen in a nuc box with 2 frames of bees, but today on 2nd thought, i wonder if it would not have been best to have left the two together and let nature take it's course. any thoughts anyone thanks. jimmy odom charlotte nc *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm