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Re: winter bees
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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 21 Jan 2017 16:29:22 -0800
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> >Can you elaborate on why you state " for at least one generation"? Do you
> consider commercially- available pollen subs limited in that respect.


The Holy Grail for pollen subs is to develop one that will provide
sufficient nutrition to allow bees without access to natural pollen to rear
more than two generations of workers (emerging workers rearing the next
generation).

The data from my trial suggest that the best subs outperformed natural
pollen for the first generation, then started to fall off.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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