>What I have been told is that assessors will allow 3/4 acre of ag for every colony of bees on the property. (This allotment only makes sense if you are thinking as bureaucrats do.) Larry Krengel ********* Without doing that math, why is this not a good catch-all number? Here's the math I did for it. Comments, appreciated. An acre is 43,560 sq ft. A sq mile is 27,878,400 sq ft. If they fly 2 miles, quadriple that figure. 111,513,600 sq ft. 3/4 acre is 32670 sq ft. That comes to ~3413 hives per a 2x2 mile area. Or... 853 hives, if bees only fly ONE mile, in a 2x2 mile area, Or... 213 per sq mile. I read of beeks putting 30 to 1340 colonies ~"per given area..." How far they space them seems to be a cpl miles, as a very rough rule of thumb. BillSF9c *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html