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Hi Aaron,
I found some very
interesting observations
about propolis in the 1946 edition of the
“The Hive
and the Honey Bee.” A part of
page
173 is shown below.
May I have your comments please?
Sincerely,
Abbas
Philipp (see
p. 144 for citation) and other European apiculturists consider that there are
two kinds of propolis: One being the resinous material gathered from plants,
principally trees; the other being produced within the body of the bee—probably
in the honey sac—as the result of consumption of pollen. In the process of
digestion, the indigestible gum of the pollen shells becomes free and, after
being pressed across the hairs on the lips of the “stomach mouth,” proventriculus,
it comes into the oesophagus and is regurgitated.
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