Those young queens can be pretty slender and fake you out like a worker. Check it again soon.

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Appreciate that! This was a wintered colony, and I was expecting to see the marked queen from last year. Maybe she didn’t make it and there is a virgin queen.

I’ll check it again soon.

They can be so elusive even when marked. Hope she’s there. Have you seen any queen cells, swarm cells?

I didn’t see any swarm cells either. Starting to think she may still be in there. Otherwise they’d leave?