A short while ago, as I recall, someone requested input on how bees from
a colony could be mass marked to determine where they might forage.  At the
time, I could not recall.
 
   I just ran across the publication I had in mind, as follows:
 
1991.  Boylan-Pett, Walter L., Roger A. Hoopingarner, and Donald C.
Ramsdell.  "A self-marking system to determine foraging populations of
honey bees ..."  BEE SCIENCE.  1:199-202.
 
   Those researchers used Day-Glo fluorescent pigment in automatic
dispensers to mark all incoming and outgoing foragers.
 
                                                        Adrian
 
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