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> 3 or 3.5 colonies per square kilometre. One from grassland habitat in Germany, the other from lavender/thyme scrubland in Spain.
1 sq km is equal to 247 acres, and I know many bees I see on even small rooftop potted lavender bushes, so somethings very different about at least the Spain number (which works out to roughly one hive per 70 acres).
I pointed out before that the surface (and interior) of a sphere makes trees the best value for bee forage - a 10-foot radius tree has a surface area of 4*pi()*r^2 = 1256 sq ft and a volume of 4/3* Pi()*r^3 = 4188 sq ft.
An acre is 43560 sq ft, so it does not take too many trees to equal an acre of blooms on the ground, no matter what assumptions you make about the density of blooms or the depth to which interior blooms may be found (there's a very tedious discussion of trees with or without interior blooms in the archives, suffice to say trees tend to bloom before they fully leaf out).
"Pi R **Squared** ?" you may be thinking.
Yeah, I know, pies are round.
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