> In an infinitely huge hive, would bees expand and forage infinitely? No, of course not.

During a honey flow, yes. I am talking about during a honey flow, during warm weather. The contraction that occurs in fall is a separate phenomenon caused by low temperatures, not the amount of honey in the hive. 

In a warm climate with a honey flow year round, honey collection would not cease as long as empty supers were available. I have seen this in Point Loma, California. It was easy to get a three hundred pound average there, back in the 1970s.

Three hundred pound crops are also collected in the Canadian provinces but that is more a factor of very long days coupled with "infinite" expanses of forage crops. Similar results have been recorded in Australia (actually, twice as much as that).

PLB

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