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Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:07:01 +0300
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J-M. Van Dyck wrote:
>>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.<<
 Clearly another case of not taking everything one reads as gospel.  
Actually this phenomenon of more than one queen is mentioned in Steve Taber's book "Breeding Super Bees"  and is produced on the plate on page 423 of Raymond Zimmer's book "L'abeille Buckfast en questions".  There are two good photographs of two queens living happily together in Zimmer's book.  Unfortunately this quaint book is not available in English.  The comments made by the two above mentioned authors fit in well with our own observations and that of other experienced beekeepers.  There is probably nothing more annoying that introducing a  beautiful, marked, clipped, laying queen, with a pedigree as long as an arm, only to check the hive a week later to find a little "scrubber" laying happily. 
Best regards
Roger White
Superbee Cyprus.

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