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Hive Weight - A Project by George McAllister

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The weight of a hive changes daily based on the activities of the bees, nectar flow and weather. I built a digital hive scale to measure the daily changes in four of my hives. The measurements are taken after sunset when all the bees are in the hive. The data below represents the daily changes in weight caused by the bees. The changes in weight from adding/removing hive boxes and frames are removed from the calculations. All the added frames are drawn comb. Besides the daily weight changes I also included the weather conditions.
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The Data:


Data Files

hive_weighing_chart_-_march_2016.pdf
File Size: 343 kb
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hive_weighing_chart_-_may_2016.pdf
File Size: 309 kb
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hive_weighing_chart_-_april_2016.pdf
File Size: 324 kb
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hive_weight_chart_june_2016.pdf
File Size: 320 kb
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Archived Hive Weight Data

Archived 2015 data (incomplete due to MANY travel days in 2015)
Archived 2014 data
Archived 2013 data
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