Hi my son and I are new bK we are trying to draw frames and were told that it sometimes is benificial to use two queens in one colony. the set up was discribed as follows:
put a super between two colonies with excluders on bottom and top of the super (empty with new waxed plastick foundation) and the next colony. the idea is that the two together will draw the comb faster. Does this work and do we really need the two excluders? As it stands the bees enter in the bottom entrance all the bees servicing the top colony are having to go through two excluders. Would it be possible to stack the two colonies with one excluder and put the super on top eliminating one excluder?
put a super between two colonies with excluders on bottom and top of the super (empty with new waxed plastick foundation) and the next colony. the idea is that the two together will draw the comb faster. Does this work and do we really need the two excluders? As it stands the bees enter in the bottom entrance all the bees servicing the top colony are having to go through two excluders. Would it be possible to stack the two colonies with one excluder and put the super on top eliminating one excluder?