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>>He says bees store pollen under the brood area.
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> > Any one have seen this?
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I have only been keeping bees for 8 years, but pollen storage in the
bottom box is one of the first things that I noticed. I have always
done a lot of queen cell production, so I need to quickly locate pollen
frames to setup the starter/finisher cell builders. I first look for
pollen in the side frames in the second brood box. If there is only
honey there, I am almost always guaranteed to find plenty of
pollen+nectar frames in the bottom box. Just did this yesterday in
fact, and found 3 frames that were half pollen and half nectar in the
bottom box to use for the cell starter.
I use double-deep brood nests, and deep supers of foundation for making
honey. I do not use queen excluders so the hives have unlimited brood area.
In the late summer, I have noticed that the bees sometimes reorganize
the hive, and move a lot of the nectar out of the bottom box and put it
up into the top box, and move the brood area into the bottom box. I
figured they used the pollen that was already down there for more
convenient winter brooding. Our hives do not have a winter broodless time.
--Jeremy
San Luis Obispo, CA
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