LOng story short, I installed a new package a week and a half ago. I opened the wrong end of the queen cage and she flew away. I thought that she was gone for good but luckily I had another box on the way that got lost in shipping that they gave me for free b/c of the mix up. That box cam on monday so I put THAT queen into my hive as I couldn't find any eggs at the time. Fast forward to yesterday. I checked on the hive and they had still not let the new queen out and were balling pretty tightly around her. I checked the frames and realized that I HAD EGGS!!! So that means my original queen was there. So I took out the new queen in her cage and just let her go thinking they would kill her. They did seem kind of aggressive to her but she still was able to enter the hive. Will they just kill her so my old queen can continue to lay? Will the two queens kill each other leaving me with no queens? And will the precense of a new queen make the old queen stop laying or my workers become less productive? I REALLY hope I didn't screw this up! LOL! I hope they just killed her. THis is my first and only hive.
Amanda
Beek newbie