[virginiawolf]

Sometimes you can get golden colored bees. It is normal.

 

[JWChesnut]

The "Cordovan" morph of Italian bees. It is a simple, recessive color trait. As a single alllele recessive trait, it is an indicator of inbreeding, but the color morph is also prized. I have numerous hives with very rapid brood expansion with that color trait. They make a good marker for parentage in open breeding systems.

 

[ErikB]

The queen seems to be laying very well, several of the frames in brood chamber are almost solid with capped brood and larvae.

 

[rsjohnson2u]

Also, I've had very young bees that are a soft golden color develop more prominent banding and darken with age.

 

[JWChesnut]

Also, I've had very young bees that are a soft golden color develop more prominent banding and darken with age.

Yup, the color in bees in the hair, as the hairs are worn off with age, the color darkens, as more of the chitin is revealed.

 

[78-79fordman]

The bees I bought out of Oklahoma are really gold like brite yellow with gold queens . Real pretty . My Arkansas bees are more black but have really pretty gold queens . So maybe its a okie thing .

 

[beepro]

Nope, their color will never darken as they aged. They have the recessive gene.
You mean this color type queens? Blond/reddish yellow! Yellow all the way to her end.