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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.
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September 2023
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