On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:00 AM, James Fischer <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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>
> The area of an ellipse that touches the edges of the same comb would be pi
> *
> a * b, where "a" and "b" are half the width and length, so 10.6 * 21.2 =
> 705 cm^2 That's 78% of the rectangle area, so take 78% of the bees
> covering
> the whole rectangular frame to get a maximum ellipse covered with bees.
>
> So, 13.7K would be a better maximum estimate for "5 seams" than 17.5K
>
Just as a side note, when working at PerĂº , maybe because of the
scuttellata genetics I saw less bees per frame. Actually beekeeper there
use 1000 bees per frame as a standard for calculation bee population per
hive.
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