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Re: Pollen-bound combs
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Ruary Rudd <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:28:21 -0000
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You are not trying to identify the pollen just to see if it is pollen, soak 
the pollen in water to allow it to swell, Mount in stained glycerine jelly 
(if you have that, if not immerse the pollen in 50% glycerine/water cover 
with a cover glass and look even at X40 you will see some structure and X100 
will obviously show you more.

Try your secondary school for the microscope if you have to.

Ruary
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Rossander" .
>
>  >  2.  Is there a field-test to find out?  (I'm afraid I don't have 
> access to  a chemistry lab or even to a particularly powerful microscope.)

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