Hi to all on BEE-L

Dr Rodriquez wrote:
French and Spanish beekeepers praticed multiple queen hives
but in separaate chambers. They called the system
"condominiums" and multiple queens.

Reply:
We have never worked this way, nor known of others working
this way in our area.

We simply smoke in virgins to act like normal supercedure
and get quite a few hives with mother/daughter mimicing
scenarios, often times found laying on the same frames.

Also we are known to combine weak colonies with laying
queens and you end up the same way. Two laying queens in
the same colony.

Also with the main flow coming on you can combine queens
and accompanying broodnests, (not even necessarily two) and
have them all laying within the same colony in the same
broodnest, now combined.

What would terms be for these scenarios, for they are not
hard to do and make up in the field in normal
hivemanagement?

Regards,

Dee A. Lusby

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