REGARDING RE>processing propolis H. Sweet wrote: >I have heard that BEEHIVE BOTANICALS will buy your dirty propolis, process it and give you 6 bucks per pound. There is even a propolis trap ( kind of like a plastic q. excluder ) that you put under the top board. The bees pack it with propolis, you take it out and put it in your freezer until hard, then twist it a little to break off the propolis.< I don't know if Beehive Botanicals will actually buy "dirty" propolis, but they do advertise that they'll buy hive scrapings. However, I'm sure that the best prices would be paid for clean propolis, and I would like to add a word of support to the use of propolis "traps". These can be bought at many American bee supply houses (Betterbee, Inc., for one), and they work great. However, if left in place for the summer, they often sag onto the top bars of the highest super and in a good honey flow get burr comb attached to them. So in some cases there is a bit of beeswax with the propolis. But the propolis is first rate, and when frozen, very easy to harvest from the plastic screens in the manner reported above. Ted Fischer Dexter, Michigan USA