Does supercedure consist of just one QC?

[Stiffy]

Yeah... To take a daughter from the most miserable hive is not a good practice.
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Buy a new laying queen.

Or have a few queens from your best hive/s ready for when you need them

 

[Anduril]

Had the most beautiful capped QC you could imagine one year with queen still there. It was a dud and 3 weeks later they swarmed on two new QCs! Keep on top of it!

I had similar, one hive superseded for a few years, then on their last attempt, swarmed on 2 cells

 

[Michael Palmer]

...but I believe supercedure is actually rarer than many people on this forum make out!

Hmmm. How common would you say supercedure is? In August 2004, I shook 50 colonies through a queen excluder. 17 had multiple queens, or 30% of the colonies superceded their queen some time before August. I wouldn't consider that rare.

 

[oliver90owner]

Supercedure is a good trait (as long as other traits are good, too). It gives continuity and avoids smaller swarmed colonies failing due to lack of foragers with a failing queen.

I would expect most swarmed colonies change their queen soon after founding a new nest. That would mean that both the parent colony and the swarmed colony continue with new queens.

Think about it - queens do not live forever.

RAB