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Nice, another beek! I have had a hive where I had queens that lived quite fine together. Weirdest hive as one of them was a caucasia and the other a cordovan.
by WaitWaitWha 2y ago
Nice, another beek!
I have had a hive where I had queens that lived quite fine together. Weirdest hive as one of them was a caucasia and the other a cordovan. Never did get stung with those ladies.
Mine was by accident, but I hear that some beeks do it since cannot get the genetic combination, they just do it as a mechanical combo, to get preferred traits. Like buckfast and russian to help with swarming and defensiveness.
- cryptonector 2y agoI've heard of queens co-existing, yeah, but that must be very rare. I wonder if somehow they either smell close enough to the same that they and the workers don't notice, or if they are sufficiently different that they don't recognize their smells as those of other queens.