September 2020 - ACT Beekeepers Association

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Bee Buzz Box September 2020 A History of Two-Queen Hives Part II – The first managed two-queen colonies

12/09/2020 Alan Wade 0

Alan Wade One of the earliest records of the existence of sustained presence of two queens in a hive comes from G.M. Doolittle’s 1889 book Scientific Queen-Rearingi, providing an account of queen supersedure: After I […]