Hello Mark,
> can anyone tell me what piece of apparatus is used to separate the queens in
> a 2 queen hive?
A few years ago I red an article by American beekeeper (unfortunately
I do not remember his name) about 2 queen hives. The conclusion of
author was following: when one forms 2 queen hive from 2 usual
hives, during first 3 weeks it's nessesary to separate them by
duble wire netting (wire mesh) with cells 3X3mm. Author insisted
that distance Between the wire mashes must be 19mm.
3 weeks later he changed double wire mashes to usual queen excluder.
Temuri Gogoberidze, caucasian queen breeder,
"Georgian Queens" Station 384230 Patara Jikhaishi,
Imereti, GEORGIA
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