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Lloyd Spear wrote:
It is well known that a hive with 30,000 bees will produce as much as
double the crop as a hive with 20,000 bees. Some researchers say it
is impossible to produce a hive with more than 40,000 bees, and 30,000
is more 'normal'. With a two-queen system one can produce a hive with
50,000-60,000 bees!
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Was brought up learning that these numbers above were for 1 box deep nucs, and normal strong commercial hives for production were 80,000 to 120,000 bees for getting decent honey crops, so 2-queen hives piled with deep supers up to 7-8 deep hive to me should be much stronger then what you are saying.........
Could you please give me a reference to read as to why you are using the smaller numbers for normal hive parameters? And also explain more as to why you have to use a 2 queen system to make a hive of 60,000 bees that is less then 80,000 bees that still is below normal strengths of the 1960s for normal commercial honey getting?
Dee A. Lusby
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