a Larry Fritz snip followed by > my comments...
Some of my brood boxes contain frames of pollen from the previous year (or
years?). Should these frames be removed, or will the bees clean them out to
make needed space for fresh pollen, nectar, or eggs?

>I see this problem here quite frequently.  You can do things to make bees move capped honey but not so much with pollen.  At times it can so plug the brood nest that it will create the conditions for swarming and the swarms issued by hives like this would about fill a 16 oz cup. In a prior life working for a commercial beekeeper this manipulation in the spring time was called 'opening up the brood nest' and this could involve heavily pollen ladened frames or frames of capped honey < the capped honey was easy to deal with in that all you did was scratch the capping and the bees did the rest. 

>What to do? Depends on what is in the hive but normally I move the frames towards the outer wall <normally second position in from the wall.  At other times I collect these, store at the top of a relatively strong hive or in a freezer and later use these for rearing queens < they are essential if you want to rear queens in numbers in a closed 'swarm box'.


Gene in central Texas....

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