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How many bees are in a pound?

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A. This is correct, masses of bees are often dumped into cages and weighed, then sold. People who want to buy bees usually purchase a queen bee plus two or three pounds of bees. This amounts to 6,000 or 9,000 worker bees which help start the new colony. read more

300 bees is equal to ½ cup, so maybe a swarm that would fill a gallon to 1/3 would be approximately 1 pound of bees, and that size swarm would be equal to about 3,600 bees. I'll go with 3,600 bees plus one for the queen per pound. read more

Most beekeeping suppliers report that a three-pound package contains 10 000 to 12 000 bees, or 3,333 and 4000 per pound. However, according to the Wikipedia article in the "related links" section, a honeybee weighs about 100 mg. If there are 453600 mg in a pound, 4536 workers would make a pound of bees. read more

There are 3-4,000 bees per pound, or about 7,000 bees in a 2-pound package and about 10,000 bees in a 3-pound package. (Honestly, no one really counts the bees!) The initial worker bees in the package are not offspring of the queen, and may be any breed. read more

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