2 Queens in one hive?!

What about two mated queens or what I’ve heard deemed “sister queens” who are both allowed to work together in one hive

I wonder if the hive recognizes they have two queens 🫅🏼 or they just allow it to happen

I think the two Queens happens way more than Beekeeper’s realize it’s just common sense for the bees to not be so quick to kill a queen and bees are really smart, so I think they’re more organized about how they go about things

I have 2 queens in a single hive for over 2 weeks now.

More common than we realise. Why not make a split with the Virgin? Lower risk I would have thought? Thanks for the video, very cool.

Volume at 100 & can't really understand you. Can't hardly hear you. Turning on CC.

You should look at Vino Farms, they had an instance of two queens for around 6 moths. One laying in a lower box, one in an upper one.

Amazing! It's always so fascinating and soothing to the soul to observe the cycle and rhythm of nature.

Thanks !

sound would be a great help

Yes sir, this does happen more often than we think. Definitely not uncommon for two queens to be living in the same colony for a short time anyway. Thanks for sharing.

How is it that the second Queen isn't hunted down and killed by the older one, or by the Bees themselves?

I have no idea what is wrong with the sound, but I can't hear you at all. And it's not my device, I looked at it on my computer, phone and kindle and the only way I can barely hear you is with an external speaker. Even then, it's much lower in volume than your vids usually are...

Having said that, Emmy something and I kicking myself because I can't remember the name of her channel, just checked her hives and there was a double queen hive and the queens were actually on the same frame and they were only inches apart.
At Vino Farms, he also had a double queen hive, but only one queen made it through the winter.
There are a couple beek vloggers that have shown us double queen hives. Like you said, it probably happens far more often than we realize. Especially since once a beek finds the queen.. They stop looking and if the queen isn't marked, they assume the old queen swarmed.

I'm a firm believer in marking queens and keeping journals on my hives.

Cool! 😎glad you chunked the Bammer hat!!!

That's amazing.

Do you keep all of your queens until they die off? Or replace them at a certain age?

That's good stuff. I really enjoy your videos. I always look.forword to your video. Keep up the good work. Your very knowledgeable on the bees. Thanks