Lance,
> Any suggestions on successfully starting a two queen hive with carniolan
> bees from a 4 pound bee package?
I have several times made two queen colonies, from two packages, here in the
Anchorage area. I install in separate boxes separated by a screen. Later I
replace the screen with a queen excluder. I have also simply put two separate
colonies which were started one above the other, switch to a screen separation,
then to queen excluder. I have yet to have either queen in such colonies
"dispached by the workers.
I pull out a nuc from one colony at the beginning of the flow and have one very
large colony.
Good luck and have fun with your bees.
Tom
--
"Test everything. Hold on to the good." (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
Tom Elliott
Chugiak, Alaska
U.S.A.
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