> Has anyone ever found glazed looking pollen frames in their hives?
I would say this is extremely common, not even notable. I always figured bees put a little layer of honey over the pollen to protect it.
> stored pollen is a preservative environment governed largely by nonmicrobial additions of nectar, honey and bee glandular secretions
> The antimicrobial properties of honey likely operate in synergy to preserve stored pollen.
> Scanning electron microscopy revealed that microbes were conspicuously absent in hive-stored pollen.
Anderson, Kirk E., et al. "Hiveāstored pollen of honey bees: many lines of evidence are consistent with pollen preservation, not nutrient conversion." Molecular ecology 23.23 (2014): 5904-5917.
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