>Allen wrote:
>>This year two separate people brought frames to me with capped
>brood after the queen had been caged for over a month, and they just could
>not understand how that happened. One of the caged queens had died in her
>cage.<<
And Roger answer:
>About five percent of all colonies at any one time have two queens.

Very interesting !
I observed that, this year by two sisters, daughters of one of my breeders:
after one month, the splendid brood with the young marked and clipped queen
is examined... A young queen runs quickly on another frame, hides and is
lost.

The other, in the next hive, was laying with his mother.  She is marked at
once and put in another small colonie.  One month later, the granddaughter
is visited, she is always there on a beautifull brood, but a young queens
run on the close frame and a queen cell almost capped hangs in the bottom
of the frame.

In the first hive, where the young queen was lost, two queens are laying on
the same frame: one marked, another not!

Seems this phenomenon is recent because the authors of the previous century
doesn't speak about that. On the contrary, they say two queens fight and
one kills the other. Obviously, here it's not the case.

Jean-Marie Van Dyck
Belgium

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