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> i give each one of my bees a name. this helps keep track of them. lately i
> have been running out of names we all have problems Jerry the beekeeper
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I only name the queens.  Keeps things simpler. In case of a
supercedure or swarm the new queen gets the same name, with a
Roman numeral after it (II, III, IV)  as with human royalty. If you
really want to name them all, you could thus recycle the names
about every 6 weeks.  Hope this helps.
 
Regards,
 
Fred