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  1. Photo/Video Gallery
    didn't know bees could collect pollen on the hairs on there body that weren't pollen baskets
  2. Post Your Bloom Dates
    Felt like spring this morning
  3. Products of The Hive
    Help needed please. We teach Encaustic art workshops in Australia. (Painting with Beeswax medium and oil pigment) Slightly yellow wax with a small amount of pollen is ok for making coloured paint. But for white paint or collage work we need perfectly white wax that sets clear. I have been...
  4. Beekeeping 101
    C. L Farrar in "Productive Management of Honeybee Colonies" describes the importance of having abundant stored pollen within the cluster space to develop robust colonies the following spring. He offers this thought: Colonies managed with two queens and then reunited to single-queen status 2...
  5. General Bee Forum Discussions
    I have a couple of frames with pollen that I want the bees to cleanout. I put them above the inner cover but they don't seem to be cleaning them out, or if they are they are doing it slowly. They cleaned out the nectar but seem to be leaving the pollen. Is this typical? Do I need to leave the...
  6. Products of The Hive
    There must be several languages or at least language enthusiasts on the forum, so I want to ask about the terms split between: Pollen in a flower Vs. Pollen in the comb(/on a bee) As far as I know, all the slavonic languages have two terms i.e. pyltsa/perga, pyłek/pierzga, meanwhile, English...
  7. General Bee Forum Discussions
    If pollen starts going into the hive, will the queen start laying immediately, or is there a significant gap? A little pollen here last week and quite a lot today. I am wondering when I can expect new bees to start bulking up the hive population.
  8. Beekeeping 101
    Interested in the highest nutritional value for my bees. Considering planting a few F1 hybrid perennials or sacrificing newer attributes and planting the open pollinated variety of the same plant from seed. Searching BeeSource. Any thoughts or references? No pollen is a no go. But wondering...
  9. General Bee Forum Discussions
    I discovered an unexpected source of late season pollen for my bees in poppies. Here's a video that shows what I found: After almost everything else has dried up, including Goldenrod and Japanese Knotweed, these poppies continue to bloom and provide what seems to be an abundant source of...
  10. Beekeeping 101
    Hello everyone, I'm wondering about feeding my bees a real pollen instead of giving them pollen substitute patties. Woudl they even taste it, since it already granulated and dried pollen by some other bees? Woudl it be better if I made patties out of pollen? Now, I know this wouldn't be an...
  11. General Bee Forum Discussions
    I apologize as I'm sure this question has already been asked. Does harvesting pollen hurt your colony? I currently just harvest honey from the supers but was curious about pollen since some friends have asked me for some. I figure honey in the super is "extra" so that's okay to take but I...
  12. General Bee Forum Discussions
    Dear all, we are experiencing in northern Mexico the worst season of the year, there is no pollen or nectar available. Some queens have stopped laying. I would like to boost them with pollen patties. Some eat them and reactivate laying but some just don't like the patties. How can I stimulate /...
  13. Equipment/Hardware
    Hello All - I am new to this forum and have visited it frequently over the past years. There is some great information to be gleaned from it. I appreciate the efforts of those folks who are active here and offer their advice. I am not new to beekeeping but will be new to trapping pollen from...
  14. General Bee Forum Discussions
    I have several hives that were attacked by some animal, probably a skunk or raccoon. The animal was big enough to get the top off my top bar hives, open them up, and eat a lot of bees, honey, and comb, but small enough to get into the hive because there's poop in it. Anyway, only one is dead...
  15. General Bee Forum Discussions
    Just a conversational thread -- Here is a frame I pulled out of a deep that was a super. If you came across this: What would you do with it? And why?
  16. Scientific Studies / CCD / Neonics
    Viper’s bugloss (Echium spp.) honey typing and establishing the pollen threshold for monofloral honey Honey samples (n = 126) from Castilla-La Mancha (Central Spain) were characterized based on their physicochemical properties and a melissopalynological analysis. The latter showed that Echium...
  17. The Queen & Bee Breeding
    How early do the bees usually start bringing pollen into a nuc ?? April 12, I put frames with hopefully young eggs into the 2 nucs, - 8 &10 days later, both had capped QCs - Going by the dates I read, definitely they should have emerged by now - maybe just barely for the one. So mating...
  18. General Bee Forum Discussions
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_American_nectar_sources_for_honey_bees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen_source http://beesource.com/resources/usda/nectar-and-pollen-plants/ http://www.sheffieldbeekeepers.org.uk/tools/pollen-chart/ enjoy
  19. Scientific Studies / CCD / Neonics
    Honey bees preferentially consume freshly-stored pollen Honey bees (Apis mellifera) collect and store both honey and pollen in preserved forms. Pollen storage involves the addition of honey or nectar and oral secretions to pollen granules. It is controversial whether the duration of pollen...
  20. Blue Sky Bee Supply
    We have a limited supply of MegaBee 50# Bags of pollen sub powder for $95 each. Will ship on a pallet. Would like to sell as a lot of 10 bags if possible. FOB Ravenna, Ohio. This is simply the best pollen sub on the market--the finest grains and scientifically formulated diet. Most other pollen...
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