On average, a pound of bees consists of about 4500 to 5000 bees.   Smoked 
bees versus unsmoked give somewhat different results, as does the  individual 
colony.  We and others have looked at this - I did a lot of  work on this for a 
legal suit in which the beekeeper had data about toxic  chemicals (from 
industrial pollution) in his bees, the experts for the heavy  industry had lethal 
dose per bee data.  We needed to know exactly how many  bees made up a sample of 
wet and of dry bee tissue.  
 
FYI, a fresh bee (just captured) weighs about .1 gm.  The average  weight per 
bee on a dry weight basis was about 38 mg.
 
Jerry



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