. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 412 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL IX iber Two Queens in One Brood-Chamber Dr II. Merri State Apiarisi. Kansas State Agricul- tural College. IN the spring of 1919, a queen w u clipped in one of the colonies at the Kansas State Agricultural College. In the middle of August, on examining this colony, we found an undipped queen. According to our records the old queen had been there on the date of the last examination. Thinking that perhaps this might be one of the rare occasions in which a young queen was working along in the hive with an old queen, I sug gested t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 412 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL IX iber Two Queens in One Brood-Chamber Dr II. Merri State Apiarisi. Kansas State Agricul- tural College. IN the spring of 1919, a queen w u clipped in one of the colonies at the Kansas State Agricultural College. In the middle of August, on examining this colony, we found an undipped queen. According to our records the old queen had been there on the date of the last examination. Thinking that perhaps this might be one of the rare occasions in which a young queen was working along in the hive with an old queen, I sug gested that they examine the hive carefully with the idea of perhaps finding another queen, and another was found on the opposite side of the hive on the next to the outside frame. Both of these queens were laying queens, as was shown by the presence of young brood in the comb on which each queen was found. The first thought was that probably this was the old queen, and that she was being allowed to remain for a time with the new queen, but upon examining her it was found that she was not clipped. There were two frames of partially drawn comb in the center of the hive, which were evidently serving as an efficient queen excluder, at leait enough so that both queens were working in the same brood-chamber. An examination of this colony again three days later showed that only one of the queens remained, which was only to be expected, as the rather thorough examination of the hive would cause the bees to dis- cover the fact that there were two queens in the same hive. The fact that the clipped queen was no lout; :r present, and as neither of the queens which were found were clipped, shows that both of the queens were young queens. It would have been interesting to know how long thej would have gone along in the hive- body if it had not been disturbed, but, of course, as we did not know there were two queens there, we did not try to use an\ extra caution in examining it. R Sweet Clover a Wee
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