I have examined multiple colonies of "feral survivor stock", hived after removal from downed trees and the like, and I remain amazed at how many of them I found to have marked queens.
The owners of these hives had no explanation for this, as they did not know how to mark queens themselves, and lacked the paint-pens required.
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