In a message dated 2/8/04 5:11:12 PM GMT Standard Time,
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> I too use the marker (paint) pens.

I go to our local autoparts store (Halfords in the UK), where they have a
paint mixing service, and get touch up paint containers made up for me each
spring. These things are ' brush in cap' and work just great.

You are not restricted to any small range of colours, so we have a parallel
code for purchased queens as well as the standard mainstream ones.

A friend is partly coloublind and can only distinguish three colours from the
main code, so this 'any colour' facility helps him get ones he can see.

There are very few cases where the bees manage to remove this stuff.

Murray

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