Perfect - one can see the bees flying to the cage.  I've received boxed packages of 100 queens that  when opened had only a few queens attracting the loose bees shipped with them.  The entire box could be set on the tailgate in a stockpile yard with 1000 colonies, and hardly any bees went to the queens.
I look for queens like you show in your picture.  One needs to keep a box of 100 of those queens in the cab of the truck just to keep from pulling in a mob of bees.   Put one of the good ones in your shirt pocket, and you'll have bees following you around, trying to get into the pocket.
>I just happen to have such a shot while setting up splits a few years back.<

I assume that if I credit you, I can add this photo to our online courses?  It's a great example of what one should expect to get in terms of a queen (at least based on this one criteria).  Jerry

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