JoJo36 wrote: ↑27 Jun 2022, 20:07
! It sounds like a great day seeing 7 queen cells pulled but I'm not sure I would have been confident enough to left 3 to fight it out??!!
I was not sure where the first queen went as she could have flew off, so I made sure that two went in!
The method of leaving just queens in the hive does work - provided you have not left a small late queencell somewhere which of course will result in the older queens flying out and leaving 'little sis' to take over. I found it in Ted Hooper's Guide to Bees and Honey. So far, leaving queens only has always resulted in one taking over.