Dick Allen quoted Walter T. Kelley thusly:

> "It has been your author's experience that painted queens are
> superceded much quicker than unpainted queens..."

It has been THIS author's experience that it is impossible to tell
a laying unmarked queen from a laying "supercedure" queen.      :)

> "...but many beekeepers do paint their queens because they
> are so much easier to find."

Easier to SEE.  Finding the *&$@% queen is another story.

        jim