What I Saw Today

Today at about 3 o'clock i was watching the bees at i usually do, and there was good traffic since today was warm and sunny. as i was watching, a very large bee came out of the hive and was walking around on the front porch (or "flight deck" as i like to call it) closely followed by a regular sized worker bee. I was like "Dayum, that is one big bee," becuse it was obviously bigger than the others, and I didnt think it was a drone because it didnt have that blunt shaped abdomen. So i thought "Can it be the queen?" because it was so obviously larger than the other bees all around it... but none of the others except one seemed to pay any attention to it except one, which was normal sized compared to all the others going in and out.

The very large bee jumped off the board and started walking along the ground and jumped down to the base of the compost bin and tried to climb up the side. The plastic is very smooth so it couldnt climb up, it's little legs were going and its wings buzzed a little but it couldnt crawl up the side of the compost bin. The whole time I'm thinking, "Is this the queen? Should I do something? That can't be the queen, can it?"

While Im thinking all this wondering what if anything I should or shouldnt do, the very large bee turned and walked over to the tire just near the compost bin and climbed up the side to the squash vine, and getting to the very large squash blossom, the very large bee took off and flew away to the south east.

So i dont know if it was a queen or not, i dont think a queen would just walk out and fly off by herself, and im thinking, not in summer when the nectar is flowing and the pollen is abundant... but I dont know. maybe I should have tried to catch it while I had the chance, but I just didnt know what was going on.
all i do know, that was one big ass bee. it had a fuzzy thorax like all the others tho, and not a round hairless part like all the queen bees in the pictures. Awwwwwww man i hope i didnt mess up by not taking action in the moment.

The behavior of the rest of the hive was business as usual, so im hoping everything will be ok whether that was the queen or not. Since it has been a week and a day since last inspection, i plan to take off the lid and look into the top super tomorrow (and pull out the bottom board and clean it off) on saturday, unless you see this and let me know if i shouldnt or if you want to be here for that or what.