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Bees by the Number
Season 1 Episode 12: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Bees by the Number
In this episode, we manage to jump around the bee world by using the numbers 1, 2, 2-3, 26, 500, 20,000, 45,000, and 50,000. That's a wealthy range of handsome numbers!
One queen? Not always. What about zero queens plus laying workers? Or more than one queen? Did you know that some beekeepers quit running two-queen colonies because their hives made so much honey that they became impractical to add supers on top? We're talking 600 pounds per hive.
Two words. Please folks, it is honey bee, not honeybee. Two words…
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