I have two hives that I started this year. One is very strong that started as a package, the other is getting there and was started from a nuc. Both are full of brood/eggs/larvae and seem to be doing well.
In my bigger hive I had noticed, a week ago, there were two closed supersedure cells on one frame. The queen was still laying and appeared fine (she is a 2017 queen). I also noted one cell in the smaller hive. A few days ago I noticed a bee from the big hive carrying out and dropping a queen, almost fully developed, but still alive. She was obviously pulled out of the cell a couple days early.
So yesterday I did an inspection. Both hives now have two queens! In the smaller hive they were both on the same side of the same frame. I'm not sure what's going on. There's no overcrowding and it seems too late in the season for a swarm, but the original queens were both laying.
Any ideas/advice would be greatly appreciated!