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i just hived my bees last saturday, and found a queen in my top bar hive that wasn't marked. the queens in the three queen cages were all marked, so i'm guessing that the suppliers accidentally shook a queen in the package with the workers and drones, effectively giving me two queens. the unmarked queen mush have been the victor in the duel to the death, unless the workers balled the queen from the queen cage. sucks for the beekeeper who sent me the package... now he has queenless hive :no: