Guild Wars 2

Well this is just a complete random question really, since well I am simply curious and obviously have nothing better to do with my life but to waste gold on Jars of Bees clearly.
But how many Bees can fit inside the consumable Jars of Bees?
And would 30,000 Jars filled with Bees harm the bee populace in Kryta/Tyria?

Oh….. Oh god….. We kept on thinking that the real danger was the elder dragons. Turns out it was us.

On a more serious note, I think that 30k jars of bees would probably be the entire population of bees in tyria (the continent not the planet). I’m sure there are way smarter people with much greater mathematical skills who could more accurately tell you, but I thought I’d give my ten cents.

How many bees can fit in a jar?

Depends on the size of the jar.

Edit:
Let’s say you are using a standard 16 fl. oz mason jar – seems fairly likely – if you’re going to want the bees alive, then you’ll need to place some combs in there for them to inhabit, that takes quite a bit of space, probably about 1/3rd of the space. Given this, the size of bee hives and number of bees per hive, you’re probably looking at – I’d guestimate – ~400 bees tops per jar (from what I’ve found you can apparently get an average of 1,000 bees on a 14×12 frame?).

So 30,000 jars would be approximately 12,000,000 bees, not a real dent in a bee population across continental Tyria (or, I’d imagine, Kryta alone) (that’d be about 150 hives, as a single hive can have up to 70,000 bees, from what I’ve looked up?).

Edit 2:

Not sure why you’d think a jar of bees is a good adventuring tool though. I mean, they’re not going to make honey without going to flowers and coming back, a jar-sized hive is far too small to produce much honey. And if you’re intending to throw the jar at foes, well, bees only sting once… get jars of wasps for that stuff!

Konig Des Todes.2086:

How many bees can fit in a jar?

Depends on the size of the jar.

Edit:
Let’s say you are using a standard 16 fl. oz mason jar – seems fairly likely – if you’re going to want the bees alive, then you’ll need to place some combs in there for them to inhabit, that takes quite a bit of space, probably about 1/3rd of the space. Given this, the size of bee hives and number of bees per hive, you’re probably looking at – I’d guestimate – ~400 bees tops per jar (from what I’ve found you can apparently get an average of 1,000 bees on a 14×12 frame?).

So 30,000 jars would be approximately 12,000,000 bees, not a real dent in a bee population across continental Tyria (or, I’d imagine, Kryta alone) (that’d be about 150 hives, as a single hive can have up to 70,000 bees, from what I’ve looked up?).

Edit 2:

Not sure why you’d think a jar of bees is a good adventuring tool though. I mean, they’re not going to make honey without going to flowers and coming back, a jar-sized hive is far too small to produce much honey. And if you’re intending to throw the jar at foes, well, bees only sting once… get jars of wasps for that stuff!

Imagine being the guy who has the job of filling up jars with wasps. I hope they get paid well!

Well, I’m as right as sonic is a hedgehog.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Not sure why you’d think a jar of bees is a good adventuring tool though. I mean, they’re not going to make honey without going to flowers and coming back, a jar-sized hive is far too small to produce much honey. And if you’re intending to throw the jar at foes, well, bees only sting once… get jars of wasps for that stuff!

Probably because of this item

But yeah, definitely a jar of wasps would be better. Probably get a ranger on your side too to make sure they attack the right targets.

EDIT: I just realised “i’m as wrong as sonic is a hedgehog” meant the opposite of saying that I was extremely wrong, so edited.

This is wonderful, thank you for that!

Minimum is 2

Not too much honey from that hive tho.