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TWO QUEENS?

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 7:47 am
by don ellis
I have one hive that has two deeps and one super. The super is almost full of capped honey left over from winter. When I inspected it this weekend there was capped brood on two frames in the super, nothing but nectar and pollen in the middle and lots of capped brood in the bottom deep. I could not find a queen in either one. Would one queen split like this or do I have two ?
Should I take off the middle deep? I also caught two swarms not far from my hives Thursday, but I don't know which hives they came from.

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:13 am
by Wally
My guess would be the brood in the super is either drone, or the last of the workers emerging after the queen moved down. With the tulip poplar just beginning, I would leave it as is.