>
> >10 lbs of bees outside the hive is a misleading hyperbole. The hive
> represented must be enormous.
I also question the above. A large colony contains ~50,000 bees, and an
exceptionally large one ~70,000. At 110 mg/worker, 10 lbs of bees would
be over 41,000 bees. I doubt that at any time during the day, the majority
of the bees are in the air.
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Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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