Is this a queen bee?

[GaryMinckler]

Two days ago I inspected and cleaned some burr comb and a few queen cells.  Everything went into a bucket.  Yesterday I found this bee walking around on the comb inside the bucket.  The bee practically walked right into an old queen cage I had.  I set the cage in front of a colony that had swarmed and had no brood in it, she walked out of the cage directly into the beehive. It was all pretty wierd.  The picture quality is poor but...Is this a queen bee?

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[AllenF]

It is hard to say with the photo that you have, but with the length of the bee with her wingspan I would have to say that she would have to be a queen.

[GaryMinckler]

The length of the bee along with the pronounced black spot that usually gets marked on a queen made me think queen.  It was strange the way she was just wandering around on pieces of comb. Could she have come out of a queen cell? During the inspection I did see a bee trying to get out of a queen cell.

[bee-nuts]

Its a queen as far as I can tell.

[G3farms]

Hard to tell from the blurry pic, but I would say yes just from the length of her.

G3