> The high pollen hoarding line in the later generations of
selection needed assistance in getting out of a pollen bound state in the
spring.
Each region has a different environment, different plants, and different problems.
Northern Alberta beekeepers in clover and fireweed country used to trade pollen-bound brood frames with Southern Alberta beekeepers for empty brood frames. so their queens would have room to lay. Southern Alberta was alfalfa country and as a result, pollen-short .
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