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Re: Feeding with pollen
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allen dick <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:48:20 -0700
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> I believe that dried pollen does lose about 10% of its food value a
> year under normal dry conditions.

I wonder if the loss is non-linear or maybe dependant on the type of pollen,
since my understanding has been that dried pollen loses effectively all its
value after three years.

Probably it is not as simple as that, though.  Nothing ever is.

allen
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