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How can so many bees fit into a hive?

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When swarming, bee scouts look for a cavity of around 40-50 litres.

Most beehives tend to be about twice this size, although it's impossible to be precise, because they are usually modular, and thus expandable.

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About 20,000 to 30,000 honeybees can make up a hive. The population involves a queen as well as drones, larvae, larval queens, and worker bees. The biggest representation is by the females who do the work inside and outside the hive whereas the male bees (drones) represent a few hundred in many cases and a few thousand in rare instances.

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Between 10 and 80 thousand, depending on the time of year and quality of the Queen.

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It depends on the size of the hive, but usually 50 to 60 thousand in the summer

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a hive can get up to 0ne million pounds!

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it depends on the size of the hive.

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1 cm 3/8

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