A Visit by the Bee Man

Our beekeeper visited today and showed us this dark queen in one of the hives.

The queen is marked with yellow, as this is the color of the year.

Here is the queen with her yellow dot.

Back in the hive she quickly disappears.

A queen cup is found in one of the hives - just practicing no new queen needed yet.
The bees are doing very well, including the 3 hives with new queens raised this year.