Modelling daily weight variation in honey bee hives
Fig 4
Comparison between the model and data.
Data corresponds to measurements on 2018–4-7 for ‘Hive 6’. By fixing τd = 49 min, the estimated parameters are Nmax = 5830 bees, W0 = 24068 g, m = 0.03 g/bee, a1 = 0.99 h−1, a2 = 2.1 h−1, d = 0.85 h−1, l = 20.66 g/h, t0 = 8.40 h and t1 = 17.93 h.