I have been trying to come up with a hypothesis for why these two queens look so different. My thought is Queen #6 (Top) was mated purebred Cariolan (prior to sending) and Queen #1 (Lower) was sent to me as a virgin and mated on site with my Italians. Hopefully this is true because I seem to be really fond of the colony in hive #1 and I believe them to be of really good stock. =)
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