"Kim Flottum" wrote about Ormand Aebi:
> co-holder with his father of the official world's record in the GUINESS
> BOOK OF RECORDS from 1976 to 1984, for the most honey produced in a
> single hive with a single queen in a single season, 404 lbs.  - which
> true single queen record (broken only with the use of multiple queens)
> will most likely never be seriously challenged.

First - nice to see a posting from you and I am sure that we all hope that
you are keeping well.

As for the record, several years ago I had a colony in the middle of
Stratford-upon-Avon that filled - and I mean filled - 12 British National
supers.  I weighed one super before and after extraction and it yielded
38lbs of honey. 12 x 38 = 456.  There were four colonies on the site and the
one next door had 10 full supers.  The others had 6 and 8 each.  All ha one
queen in a single National brood box.

Obviously, I am not trying to claim any records as we did not weigh the
total crop or have it witnessed, but I am sure Aebi's 'record' can - and
probably has - been beaten.

Peter Edwards
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