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Title: pollen in the comb
Post by: Dick Allen on July 05, 2006, 01:42:10 PM
:?: My first time doing cut comb honey. Squeezed all the brood and bees into a single deep, put on a queen excluder, then added the super with the comb foundation. At first, I used an upper entrance, but the other day I saw a few cells packed with pollen, so I closed that entrance off. The super is filling nicely, so today I added a second super of comb foundation. There was a bee wandering around above the queen excluder with pollen in her baskets and a couple more cells had a little pollen in them. Is that to be expected? I don't suppose there is any way to prevent some of the cells from having pollen deposited into them is there?
Title: pollen in the comb
Post by: Michael Bush on July 05, 2006, 10:59:22 PM
Sort out the ones with pollen in them after you cut them.  Charge 50 cents extra for these.  There are people who WANT the pollen.  It's all in the marketing.
Title: pollen in the comb
Post by: Dick Allen on July 06, 2006, 02:29:57 AM
OK Michael, thanks for the tip!  :lol: