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Is 60000 bees a lot? Also, how does one estimate the amount of bees?
In the summer, those stacks of wooden boxes beekeepers use can contain around 60k bees. It's a quite normal amount of bees in a bee hive. When it gets colder and the season ends it goes down to maybe 20k bees. At least that's what a bee keeper told me once. We were looking at returning bees who were not let in by the guard bees because they were not needed anymore.