Dave Cushman wrote:

> I also think that two queens is more common than many think, simply
because
> they 'see' a queen and presume that she is the only one... They do not go
> looking for a second queen.

I think that you have hit the nail on the head here.  Unless queens are
marked, how often do you see them unless you are really looking for them?
In my experience not that often.  After all, most of the books tell you to
look at the work of the queen, rather than searching for the queen herself -
and this is good advice!  So, unless we have a marked queen and happen on
another unmarked queen by chance, then we would not know that there are two
(or more) queens in the hive.

Peter Edwards
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