Yesterday it stopped raining long enough for me to start treating some of my colonies. I noticed that two of the colonies have all black bees. Just last month they were Italian. Could a feral colony taken them over or have they superceded the old queen and the new one mated with "wild" bees. The brood pattern is excellent and these two colonies are full of bees. Bill Hughes Bent Holly Honey Farms Brighton, Tennessee, U.S.A.