Thank you for the messages ....

Chris - one sample was honey from my own hives.  The other was a sample from a dealer but said to be from hives just south of my own.

I want to do this test since Chinese honey is now a severe threat here (Thailand).  It is very cheap (apparently 60% of local production cost) and generally locally impossible to detect.  So I was thinking to compare pollen in honey and see what could be learned.  My adventure is to see what can be done.  If it works then I will share the methodology with the bee farmers to that they can watch out for questionable purchases when they trade honey.

Gavin - thank you for clearly setting out the steps to follow.  I can cope with all of that except step #5 which I suspect will become a whole lot clearer when I am in the lab.  This looks like being the method to follow it even gives an alternative approach where a centrifuge is not available.

The next challenge will of course being to track down a pollen database :)

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