>Hi Bee folk,
> Does anyone have any information on the way the group mind of the colony
behaves.
For example I have heard that a colony will allow several queens to hatch
out - isolating each one with a small court of attendants - to keep them apart.
Letting them out one by one to mate and in some cases allowing several
queens (up to four in the case mentioned ) to lay in separate parts of the
hive without any fuss.
 
I know about the Cjemical signals emitted by the Queen but it is this
detailed working of the consensual mind that is the curious feature I am
interested in.
 
Any comments??
 
David Warr
Warrington
Cheshire
England