<You say "have been using pollen traps for 10 years...".  Interesting, as
I
<see you are in the Northeast.  With our relatively high humidity, do you
dry
<the pollen?
        Yes indeed, I have a vented solar drier that works very well. It
will hold three 1.5' x 2.5' screen bottom trays. It takes about 1 sunny
day to dry the pollen to pass the pinch test (if pollen pellets pinched
together do not adhere dry enough), real scientific huh? Pollen keeps for
months in tightly sealed jars without molding. Pellets are not so dry
that a hard pinch can't crumble them. I clean my pollen whereas most who
freeze instead of dry do not. I defy anyone who does not dry pollen to do
a descent job of cleaning in any reasonable period of time. Of course
there are arguments for and against both freezing and drying. The few I
know in this area who trap freeze it.
 
Alden Marshall
B-Line Apiaries
Hudson, NH 03051
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