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How is the color used to mark queens determined?

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How is the color used to mark queens determined?

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Commercially purchased queen bees are usually marked with a dab of color. The color allows one to tell in what year the queen was born. Younger queens are better egg layers, and thus produce more worker bees, which in turn make for healthier colonies.

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