I tracked down the source of the big numbers (I guess):

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Date: Apr 9, 2007 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: 700,000 hives

> Jerry Hayes, Florida apiary inspector, said it was between 650,000 and 800,000.

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Peter Borst

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