Education = Intelligence? Hardly.

[SckizoBoy]

Yeah it was kind of a family activity back in the day we had 55 hives going. Our great uncle started with 4 hives to make his own honey. And he showed my dad, who started with a hive in our backyard when we still lived in town before we moved out to the farm. After our first few harvests he kept expanding. It was really nice having access to large amount of pure honey and beeswax actually. I kinda miss that.

Good grief, 55?! Well, summers must've been busy...!

How large did swarms get?

 

[Sandytimeman]

Yeah it was kind of a family activity back in the day we had 55 hives going. Our great uncle started with 4 hives to make his own honey. And he showed my dad, who started with a hive in our backyard when we still lived in town before we moved out to the farm. After our first few harvests he kept expanding. It was really nice having access to large amount of pure honey and beeswax actually. I kinda miss that.

Good grief, 55?! Well, summers must've been busy...!

How large did swarms get?

I'm assuming you mean by swarm is when a large hive splits? or do you mean general population?

Generally when doing hives you have two types of boxes. Each box has some frames for them to build the honey combs on. Large boxes are the food / area you leave for the hive to live off of, and smaller boxes are for where you have them build the excess (though when full those small boxes are like almost 100 lbs >.< )

So generally a strong hive would be 3 boxes, at that point the hive would be preparing itself to split off. You can generally tell because of the formation of a second queen. It's generally best to split them off into their own hive yourself.

Generally a decent hive would be two boxes high. Like so:

also a side note you'll very rarely see a wild swarm of bees, bees don't live long in the wild anymore because of all the European diseases and mites that got brought over. (exception would include those africanized bees)

 

[SckizoBoy]

I'm assuming you mean by swarm is when a large hive splits? or do you mean general population?

Generally when doing hives you have two types of boxes. Each box has some frames for them to build the honey combs on. Large boxes are the food / area you leave for the hive to live off of, and smaller boxes are for where you have them build the excess (though when full those small boxes are like almost 100 lbs >.< )

So generally a strong hive would be 3 boxes, at that point the hive would be preparing itself to split off. You can generally tell because of the formation of a second queen. It's generally best to split them off into their own hive yourself.

Generally a decent hive would be two boxes high. Like so:

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also a side note you'll very rarely see a wild swarm of bees, bees don't live long in the wild anymore because of all the European diseases and mites that got brought over. (exception would include those africanized bees)

Oh, I knew that... sort of...(!) Studied next to an apiculture lab for my master's and lunched with the beekeepers on a regular basis, so I picked up a bit of the know-how (though not much on the do-how side...). Since all the hives were for research purposes, they were all fairly small in comparison (one box, and even the observational hives were small, I don't think any of them grew to be larger than a couple thousand-ish and one of the queens was so weak her hive basically died out despite introducing loads of extra workers, I think it never had more than a thousand workers).

The drones were kinda funny though when we had them, just trundling around the hive getting in the way of the workers...! Still, the lab produces a fair bit of honey each year, which is cool. Funniest line from one of the postdocs: 'need ta getcha sperm'dup!' while swaying and cooing in front of the observational hive!

 

[Sandytimeman]

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The funnier thing to me anyway is that, Drones are pushed out of the hive for the winter to die. Because they are only used for fertilizing another hives queen. My mom often said she should adopt a similar policy in regards to me and my dad :3 lol

but yeah if you got anymore questions about Beekeeping the do-how side, you can msg me. I spent ages 10-18 messing with hives along side my dad. XD

 

[Andy Szidon]

So, for example, doing good in math class is education but doing good in math competitions not school-related (i.e. Mathcounts) is intelligence.

 

[Olas]

If anything, in terms of common sense, problem solving, and analytical skills, uneducated people are probably superior than educated. The main reason I believe this is that without having all the worlds knowledge handed to them they are forced to learn and figure things out on their own independently.

This is one explanation that I've heard for why early humans actually had larger brains than modern day ones.
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/07/the-incredible-shrinking-human-b.html

They had to survive in much harsher environments than we do without calculators, dictionaries, or Wikipedia to aid them. They didn't have information simply thrust on to them at an early age so each generation had to start from scratch, and if they couldn't learn quickly enough, they died.

Knowledge DEFINITELY doesn't equal intelligence.