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Pollen Sub should be a mixture of soy flour, dried milk and brewers yeast.  I
get it from a supplier but make sure it includes all of the ingredients.  Bees
will take saw dust if nothing else is around so don't assume it is good just
because they eat it.
 
I prefer to trap some pollen from the year before and add 20% with the purchase
pollen sub mised with heavy sugar syrup to make cookie dough.  Make patties 3/8
inches thick and put on top of frames over the brood nest.  Once you start to
feed do not let them run out before the natural pollen is available.  They raise
brood in response to available pollen.  If you get them started and then stop
supplying it a lot of larvae will die or be undernurished.