premise: How do you mark a queen bee?
hypothesis: Prepare your paint before you pick up the queen bee by her thorax between your thumb and forefinger. Hold her over the hive. Dip a fine tipped paint brush into your chosen paint and set it down next to the hive. Gently pick up the queen bee in one hand. Pick up the paint brush with your other hand. Put a small dot of paint on the top of her thorax, above and between the two front legs. Be careful not to get any paint on her wings.