Hello Barry & All, >Who says a golden yellow bee is better in some way than a dark > bee? I have always prefered the Italian bee for a number of reasons. My partner prefers the Carniolans. Our last grafting of SMR queens produced one * yellow* queen. I was thrilled but my partner said the bees must have moved a egg. Has any other beekeepers grafting SMR came up with a completely yellow SMR queen? So far we have only had the one yellow queen out of several hundred SMR grafts. Bob