Gary S. Reuter wrote informatively on bee feeding patties:
 
> >
> >     Does anyone have a pollen substitute recipe they would like to share?
> >
> >
>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 mixed with heavy sugar syrup to make cookie dough.  Make patties...
 
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This question may betray my lack of experience, but I had the idea (gained from
reading books) that the bees process nectar and pollen separately. The nectar
comes into the hive in forager's stomachs, while the pollen comes in on leg
pouches. Once in the hive, the different foods are treated and stored
separately, except when the pollen is mixed with small amounts of honey to
make bee-bread.
 
I'm wondering how the bees deal with mixed sugar syrup and pollen/pollen sub?
 
Perhaps the point is that they are eating it, not storing it?
 
David
 
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