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Re: Do Bees Eat Fresh Pollen?
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Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:51:53 -0500
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>.Bee bread and pollen from seven locations were analyzed for moisture, 
> >protein, reducing and nonreducing sugars, lipids, sulfated ash, starch, 
> >pH, pectins and crude fiber. The levels of protein, moisture, and lipids 
> >differed little between pollen and bee bread. However, there was no 
> >detectable starch in any of the samples of bee bread; and starch was 
> >present in all seven samples of pollen.

The last sentence would seem to have implications that stored pollen (bee 
bread) would make a better food for confined (winter) bees than fresh 
pollen?

Alden M.
NH 

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