New Queen colours.

[Greengage]

I know I should wait a month to tell you this but Ill forget.
All queens born this year will do so with a yellow dot on their thorax.
Amazing how she is born every year with a different colour in her back . How do they do that?
Found this. Need more computor skills to create this.
http://bee-queen-color.goodplace.eu/?year=1.1.2017

[Poly Hive]

Personally I ignore it. I used to work a lot of OSR and finding a yellow queen was a serious pain so I used colours I found easy to see, and in my case that was and is, white, red, green and blue. And frankly in reality more than enough.

PH

[fatshark]

I'm red/green colour blind ... I just alternate white and blue and have reasonable notes.

[Black Comb]

I just use white and mark the Q year of birth on the record card.

[Mellifera Crofter]

... and I like all five colours. I also use it to make marks (crosses for queen cells or whatever) on the top bars with that year's colour. That gives me a quick idea how old the frame is.

You don't have to consult that website to see a year's colour, GG. A mnemonic I use is, "When You're Ready, Get Bees" with 'When' is white for years 1 and 6, 'You're' is yellow for years 2 and 7, and so on.
Kitta

[madasafish]

Dayglo Orange and yellow for me..

[Greengage]

... and I like all five colours. I also use it to make marks (crosses for queen cells or whatever) on the top bars with that year's colour. That gives me a quick idea how old the frame is.

You don't have to consult that website to see a year's colour, GG. A mnemonic I use is, "When You're Ready, Get Bees" with 'When' is white for years 1 and 6, 'You're' is yellow for years 2 and 7, and so on.
Kitta

Ah yes I know but i thought it was clever to show in a presentation, I use " Will You Raise Great Bees to remember.