A tale of two queens

摘要

A week before EAS this past Summer I went out to the beeyard to inspect my colonies to make sure they would have enough honey supers during my absence. One of the colonies had no honey in the supers and upon inspecting the brood combs, I found all drone comb in a spotty pattern. I also found the queen, a two year old buckfast queen with a worn yellow marker. I thought to myself, "I should kill her now and order a new one, but for some reason I didn't and decided to look at the rest of the colony. Tomy surprise, I discovered a second queen, a new young queen.