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Date: | Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:48:37 -0500 |
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Most of us who have kept bees for several years have seen two or more queens
in a colony occasionally. Yesterday, for example, I opened a colony,
removed the inner cover, laid a queen excluder on top of the brood box, and
before I could replace the cover TWO queens were trying to squeeze through
the excluder. Both flew away when I tried catching them.
I suppose they might have been newly-hatched virgins, who had been roosting
under the inner cover when I removed it. For some reason, as sometimes
seems to happen, they didn't fight.
Walter Weller
Wakefield, Louisiana
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