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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => DOWN UNDER BEEKEEPING => Topic started by: OzBuzz on July 31, 2010, 07:45:07 pm

Title: Needed desperately-some pollen or pollen patties
Post by: OzBuzz on July 31, 2010, 07:45:07 pm

Hi everybody, was wondering if anyone might be able to help me out with either some pollen or some pollen patties?

Title: Re: Needed desperately-some pollen or pollen patties
Post by: Kathyp on July 31, 2010, 09:03:19 pm

somewhere on here there is a recipe for making them.  aren't you still in winter there?

Title: Re: Needed desperately-some pollen or pollen patties
Post by: philinacoma on August 11, 2010, 11:45:16 am

Quote from: kathyp on July 31, 2010, 09:03:19 pm

somewhere on here there is a recipe for making them.  aren't you still in winter there?

Seeing the girls out last Sunday and Monday in force, they don't think it will be for much longer!

Title: Re: Needed desperately-some pollen or pollen patties
Post by: OzBuzz on August 11, 2010, 07:46:26 pm

Thanks guys for your replies... i decided to take a different path with the hive that i needed pollen patties for - there just wasnt enough bees to keep the hive viable so i made a nuc and introduced the queen from this colony in to that. There's about 50 bees left from the original colony and the queen had laid some eggs - a bit of brood hatched the other day so maybe they might turn one of those eggs in to a queen cell but if they do it will be a real project to get this tiny hive going... i'l keep you posted.

In regard bringing in pollen - when i opened my main hive the other day i was watching what the girls were bringing in! they were loaded with pollen! bright yellow and there was this amazingly vivid bright red pollen on a few as well! i love seeing the chequered pollen colours on a frame