I think I’m glad that I hadn’t seen this before. Jill and I were estimating that each honey bee weighed a half a gram (500 mg). There are 454 grams per pound, so a pound of honey bees would number about 1,000 bees. Our three pound package would contain roughly 3,000 bees.
However, according to this EPA appendix (yes, it’s not a primary source, but it sure sounds authoritative!) bees weigh 128 mg on average. So rather than dealing with 3,000 bees over the weekend, we probably had closer to 10,000! *shudder*
[update] Neat – wordpress has a latex equation parser:
