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Bee Colors
Queen Bee Color Codes
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Queen Wing Clipping Code
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| Year ending in a: |
Use color code
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| 0 or 5 |
blue |
| 1 or 6 |
white
(gray) |
| 2 or 7 |
yellow |
| 3 or 8 |
red |
| 4 or 9 |
green |
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Year
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Clip wing |
| Even |
Right |
| Odd |
Left |
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Our first Midnite queen arrived and she was
marked white. I called Draper
Super Bee and inquired why she was not marked blue. They replied that they
always use white. Drapers does not follow a queen marking color code convention.
Since the bees were subcontracted to York
Bee, I assume they do not follow the color code convention either. This was
later confirmed when we received two Starline
queens from York Bee and they were both marked yellow.
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