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The hive was started with three pounds of Italian honey bees (Apis mellifera lingustica) raised in Georgia. Three pounds equals roughly 10-12,000 bees. If all goes well, at the peak of the summer we could have 50- 60,000 bees in the hive. That’s obviously a rough guess. During the day, about half the bees will be foraging outside the hive.
