Two queens in a hive

[Keith13]

If there is an established queen in a hive. Then another queen is put in the hive inside a cage will the two pheromones mix and the unprotected queen be killed by the workers?

Keith

[Michael Bush]

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "the two pheromones mix".  But the caged new queen will almost always be killed if the hive is queenright.

[Keith13]

Thanks Michael I was just wondering.

Keith

[ArmucheeBee]

Are you putting the caged queen in to keep her alive?  or.... Are you putting her in to release her, not knowing there is a queen in the hive?  Without a queen excluder the hives' queen would attempt to kill the queen in the cage.

[Keith13]

Really I was wondering why people go through all the trouble of introducing queens the hard way. If you could just put them in and the workers would kill the old queen then open up the new queen. It would make life so much easier :roll:

Keith

[Michael Bush]

>It would make life so much easier

Bees don't seem to be into making our life easier...