>>He says bees store pollen under the brood area.
> >
> >  Any one have seen this?
> >
> >

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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