Does this also mean you can harvest less honey if you smoke out the bees (because the bees have taken part of the honey)? Would that be a significant part?
Maybe, maybe not, who knows. Mostly honey in combs is sealed, so even if bees wanted to, they just don't have time to open combs. One bee can take 40 mg of nectar (I don't know how much honey they can take, but I assume, same amount), one hive contains ~30 000 bees (it's for 12 frames hive), so they possibly coud take 1,2kg of honey, each frame can take up to 3kg of honey, let's say half of hive is full of honey - 18kg, it's less than 10%. But this numbers are wery rough.
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u/I_knew_einstein 9d ago
Does this also mean you can harvest less honey if you smoke out the bees (because the bees have taken part of the honey)? Would that be a significant part?