Re: Two overwintered queens
I beleive according to larry conner's books, he say 10 percent of the time a hive combs outta winter with two queens.
Re: Two overwintered queens
For the beekeeper that does not have an annual requeening system it's probably quite common. back in the days when my dad and I ran the bees (150-200 hives) we didn't have a requeening program and quite often found 2 queens with in a hive, maybe 2 hives a year, but there were probably more then than that that we didn't notice. I requeen annualy now and even then I've seen a few.