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Re: as 10-15 pounds of bees outside of the hive
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> Strong colonies have a lot more foragers coming and going.


Agree, large colonies devote a higher percentage of their population to foraging. It's the biology behind why two-queen systems can make a lot more than two separate colonies of the same size.  I run two-queen colonies against strong singles every year and the two-queen systems consistently make more honey.
 

Danka, Robert G., and Norman E. Gary. "Estimating foraging populations of honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from individual colonies." Journal of economic entomology 80.2 (1987): 544-547.

https://www.apidologie.org/articles/apido/pdf/1986/03/Apidologie_0044-8435_1986_17_3_ART0001.pdf

Bill Hesbach
Cheshire CT. 

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