Bull City Bees Beekeeping adventures in downtown Durham

April 30, 2012

Maybe not 3,000 bees

Filed under: Uncategorized — cec @ 9:44 am

I think I’m glad that I hadn’t seen this before.  Jill and I were estimating that each honey bee weighed a half a gram (500 mg).  There are 454 grams per pound, so a pound of honey bees would number about 1,000 bees.  Our three pound package would contain roughly 3,000 bees.

However, according to this EPA appendix (yes, it’s not a primary source, but it sure sounds authoritative!) bees weigh 128 mg on average.  So rather than dealing with 3,000 bees over the weekend, we probably had closer to 10,000!  *shudder*

[update] Neat – wordpress has a latex equation parser:

3 lbs \times {{454 gram} \over {1 lb}} \times {{1 bee} \over {0.128 g}} \sim=10,000~bees

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