Charles,

Something not right with your figures. 200 bees out of 3500 bees is just
under 6% not 1%. Still a relatively small variation but I guess that only
proves the average weight tends not to vary much. Are your bees/pound
figures from a particular time of year or a good cross-section across the
season?  Does anyone know if there is a natural variation of bee size/weight
depending on season? Are larger bees or smaller bees more likely to survive
winter? Larger bees for summer foraging, smaller for better winter
clustering?

John


>Weight is not a good indicator. IMO   I (okay the girls that work for me)
>have weighed many pounds of bees   seems pretty much no matter the
>condition,  there are right at 3500 bees per pound.   That's the same
number
>that's been thrown around since the 1950's.

>We found the variances in bees per pound to be around 200 bees,  less than
>1%   

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