The question has been raised about grain size of pollen subs. The smallest pollen I can find has a grain size of 6 microns and some plant species have grain sizes as large as 100 microns. From my perspective either of these grain sizes are pretty large. Ag pesticides formulated as wetable powders or aqueous based flowables are routinely ground as small as the 1 to 2 micron range. You can get to this particle size economically by either air milling or by wet ball milling in an attriter. So, I do not think it would be all that expensive to get to say 20 microns.
Has anyone ever looked at commercial dry pollen subs and estimated particle size? The stuff seems fairly fine to me as currently supplied.
Also has anyone ever tried feeding pollen sub by dusting the dry powder into drawn combs, perhaps followed by a spray of HFCS or sugar syrups to wet it out?
If bees gather dry pollen sub outside the hive and carry it home like they would pollen do they store it?
Dick
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