• Question: How many hunnybees can live in a hive?

    Asked by anon-224551 to Scott on 12 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Scott Dwyer

      Scott Dwyer answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      Each hive can have around 60,000 bees in the summer, so if I’m visiting ten hives to check on them or gather some bees for an experiment I can end up working with a lot of bees.
      In winter, this tends to get a lot smaller so around 20,000 in a hive.

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