>  Supercedure does not guarantee that the old queen will be disposed of and
it is possible for her to live several years alongside a daughter


> From my personal experience I see the above as a very very rare occurrence
>at least in the bees we use in the U.S. My guess would be one in around
>200 hives
>has two laying queens.



>  I once found 7 colonies out of 100, that had two queens. I was preparing
> to requeen these colonies. I killed to old queens, and gave new queens in
> introducing cages (not mailing cages). The candy hole was corked for two
> days. When I returned to pull the corks, the bees on the outside of the
> queen cages didn't all act the same, in every hive. Most were clinging
> losely on the cage, feeding the queen, or walking. Some cages had a ball
> of bees grabbing onto the cage with all their might. It was obvious they
> were trying to kill the queen inside. There were seven out of the hundred
> that were behaving like this. All 7 had a second queen.


Mike
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