Consequences of combining two Q+ colonies?

[HM Honey]

Just out of interest really? A question for the more experienced beeks?

What would happen if you combined two queen right colonies??

 

[enrico]

A big punch up or a swarm.
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[meidel]

Well, I've got one on each end of a few supers, the result of successful snelgroving (a little too successful perhaps) and so now the combo is bb, Qx, super x2, Qx, bb.

 

[Swarm]

A dead queen and mass carnage?

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

Well, I've got one on each end of a few supers, the result of successful snelgroving (a little too successful perhaps) and so now the combo is bb, Qx, super x2, Qx, bb.

I thought that was "allowed"?

 

[meidel]

i guess with the 2 Qexes, it's not a unite, just a combo

 

[masterBK]

Ron Brown used to run colonies with two queens and produced a booklet in 1980 called "A simple two-queen system". I often have two queen colonies with mother in bottom BC and her daughter Q in top BC with supers in between with excluders preventing them getting at each other. Then about 3 weeks before I go to the heather I remove the old lady and when her brood has all emerged reduce to one BC.

 

[Ben90]

Ron Brown used to run colonies with two queens and produced a booklet in 1980 called "A simple two-queen system".

Any way to get hold of that booklet or an electronic version now?

 

[Foxylad]

Any way to get hold of that booklet or an electronic version now?

Curry method is similar.

http://www.blackburnbeekeepers.com/The curry method of Swarm control.pdf