I have been out of bee keeping for many many years but I once thought the way to fortune was pollen traps and I really knocked my honey crop into the dumpster one year by running a hundred of them. I collected a lot of pollen. With the bottom traps I was using. Those traps also collecting every bee wing and antennae that fell to the bottom of the hive. I ran the pollen thru a seed cleaner from an old grain elevator, but it still required a lot of hand cleaning to get it clean enough to sell. Question one. Do the new traps turn out a cleaner product thats not so impossibly time consuming to clean? I wish I had just a few pound of the hundreds I produced that I ended up feeding to my brotheinlasws sheep bwecase I couldn't sell it! Next question is would people want to buy it for supplimental feeding in the spring with the lips, wings and eybrows still in the pollen. Any thoughts??
>Do the new traps turn out a cleaner product thats not so impossibly time consuming to clean?
Any of the Sundance traps are cleaner than most. The Sundance II is a top trap and is significantly cleaner than even the Sundance bottom trap (which is pretty clean).
Thanks. Where can one purchase this most reasonably?
I've seen them serveral places, but Dadant stands out in my mind, mostly because they have them in eight frame (at least last I looked).