Do Daily Egg-Laying Rates Of Less Than 3,000 Found By Recent Investigators Indicate Average Queenbees?

A daily gain of 20 to 25 pounds of honey during a honey-flow is considered high for any colony of honeybees. Scientific data as to average nectar loads, number of trips per day, and the amount of water eliminated from nectar after it is brought into the hive indicate that a queenbee having an average daily egg-laying rate of less than 3,000 can produce enough workers to gather an excess of 25 pounds of nectar during anyone day. Consequently, recent scientific brood-rearing investigations were made on colonies having average queen bees, even though none of the latter were found to layover 3,000 eggs in twenty-four hours.