A Tale of Two Hives

I got this hive from Blue Ridge Honey, a package with a Carniolan queen.  This hive swarmed in May.  Now it has a new queen mated with a local drone.  I named it the "pi" hive after the irrational number pi because the area of the entrance hole is pi inches!  This is the strongest hive.  Most impressive beard, I cannot recall seeing any more massive than this one.

The other hive is one of two nucs I received about a month ago.  I don't know the precise definition of "nuc" but basically a mini hive, usually created from a larger hive, that is being split.  This hive weighs 19 pounds, of which 9 pounds is biomass.  The pi hive weighs 54 pounds.  So anywhere from 44 to 49 pounds of biomass.