Hi Abbas,

I wonder if _The_Hive_and_the_Honey_Bee_ writes it differently in a
newer edition.  I do not have my copy at hand so I cannot check.
However,working from memory here (always a dangerous practice), it was
at EAS in Murray State University, Murray, KY in 2008 where I attended
a lecture by Dr. James Tew.  Dr. Tew asserted that propolis was the
resinous material gathered from plants (so far in agreement with the
passage you quoted).  However, Jim stated that the resinous material
is "processed" in the hive by the bees to create propolis.  In other
words, the resinous material gathered from plants is to propolis as
nectar is to honey.  I do not recall if Dr. Tew went into what is the
processing that turns the resins into propolis (I think he did not as
time was tight).

I have never heard the assertion of pollen being processed into
propolis, but I have yet to hear it all!

Aaron Morris - wondering where's my _Hive_and_the_Honey_Bee_?

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