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>Bil has noted that I am mixing pollen with the honey already during the extraction process, but am I doing enough? When I started beekeeping forty years ago, I did not use queen excluders and there were indeed a lot of pollen cells in with the honey. Now I use excluders all the time and there are very few if any pollen cells in with the honey.<
I am confused. Pollen is stored by bees as 'bee bread', moistened with nectar to start ferminaation or whatever the process is, and packed down tight - at least in my hives. None of this gets extracted , at least not at the speed my extractor revolves. The stored pollen stays in the honey combs, unless ug out and eaten by me as a delicacy as Chris has noted. The pollen mites reduce it to dust before next season. So what pollen are we talking about that is loose enough to be extracted?
Robin
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