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Bee weight is 100-120 mg.
Its full load, like inswarm is 70 mg.
So the honey weight in swarm is about 40%.
2kg swarm has about 0,8 kg honey.
We have balance hive nework in Finland.
When the swarm escapes, that hive will not do any more surplus.
Phew, I'm glad I'm not in Finland, still get plenty of surplus here following swarming. Just another example of the differences in Bee keeping in different countries.
Chris
Phew, I'm glad I'm not in Finland, still get plenty of surplus here following swarming. Just another example of the differences in Bee keeping in different countries.
Chris
still get plenty of surplus here following swarming.
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Typical figure on balance when swarm escapes.
When the swarm left the Mikkeli hive, after that my hive has brought 50 kg honey and that Mikkeli-hive has minus result during last 2 weeks.
http://koti.tnnet.fi/web144/vaakapesa/selaa.php?vuosi=2013&kunta=165
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V interesting Finman. Did you realise you have provided access for all your hive data from Akaa to Virolahti?
Looks and interesting software package, do you use anything else to manage the hives?
What Beauhawk means is that having given us a link to some of your data it has given us a way to look at ALL your figures.....I think?
A swarm, I believe, contains a cross-section of all ages of bee, not predominantly foragers. The prime swarm certainly takes some honey (sensibly), the casts less so.
A good colony in a good year will still manage to produce a surplus. In England.
The kind of brood interuption that interests me most about swarming is that of varroa.
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