>"A frame of bees contains about 1,500 bees.  An 8 frame colony contains

> about 12,000 bees."


When shaking bees, one needs to shake 2-3 frames to get a pound of bees.
 At ~3500 per pound, that's about 1400 per frame.  So an 8-frame colony
would have in the ballpark of 12,000 bees.  Their number seems about right!

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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