Pollen left in extracted frames ??

[Bee-Bop]

I had a few frames that had a number of pollen cells of which the extractor normaly won't clean out;
My question, when I place these extracted frames back on the hives, do the bees use this remaining pollen or do thy discard it ??   :?

Oh. I spray all frames with aizawai before replaceing in hives.

Bee-Bop

Never said that I was the sharpest tack in the box !

[joker1656]

Bee-bop,

I am sorry, I don't have an answer.  I am first season. 

If you don't mind, though, what is aizawai?  What does it do for the frames?  I don't think I have heard of it yet.

Thanks

Joker

[Eshu]

So, you spray them before putting them back on the hive to clean?  Or before putting them in storage?  

I would guess they would re-use the pollen, but I don't know for certain.

[Bee-Bop]

I spray before putting in to storage, altho I understand you can actually spray the frames & bees in the hive without any harm.

I did spray one hive one year and noticed no harm, but didn't see the benifit in doing it with a strong hive.

Of course I have been wrong a few times !!     :roll:

Thanks

Bee-Bop

[Scadsobees]

I think if you put it back on the hive, they will store honey overtop of it again :roll:.

Be careful putting it into storage with pollen as that will attract SHB, and the only thing BT aiwazai does for shb is eliminate the competition. :-\

[Michael Bush]

I'd put them in the bottom box where they would probably put the pollen themselves...

[applebwoi]

The aizawai won't hurt the bees but if I were going to use it, I'd use it before storage, not before putting the frames back on a strong hive.