I have been using a 10 frame single deep started in March from a package to split to nucs or use frames of brood from this to bolster other hives. It has always had an enormous amount of brood in it and have always thought wow this is a really nice productive queen.
I went in to today to rob a couple of frames of brood for a weaker hive and a nuc. The second frame I pull out and inspect there is an unmarked queen so I think odd there was a marked queen in there last week, and go ahead an mark her. Next frame I pull out there is another unmarked queen so I mark her too. Now I am interested so continue inspecting and sure enough there is my original marked queen
How common is it to have multiple queens living in harmony in a single deep hive. I have never seen a queen cell in this hive so I am a little confused as to how these other two queens got there in the first place. No wonder there was so much brood in there.
Mark
I went in to today to rob a couple of frames of brood for a weaker hive and a nuc. The second frame I pull out and inspect there is an unmarked queen so I think odd there was a marked queen in there last week, and go ahead an mark her. Next frame I pull out there is another unmarked queen so I mark her too. Now I am interested so continue inspecting and sure enough there is my original marked queen
How common is it to have multiple queens living in harmony in a single deep hive. I have never seen a queen cell in this hive so I am a little confused as to how these other two queens got there in the first place. No wonder there was so much brood in there.
Mark