Hi Dave.
Thanks for the advice and the link. I did some hunting and found a few sites
devoted to the health benefits of bee pollen....I never knew! I was reading your
drone information from an earlier post, it's interesting. When one of the local
guys here saw my Warre boxes he commented that natural comb is bad because bees
will make 'too many' drones if they have control over the cell size. I thought
that was funny.

I never got to see any of the drones from last year, but this year I saw two or
three in the package. Fascinating.

Chris in NY
N2CLA {my new vanity callsign}

--- In warrebeekeeping@..., Dave Cushman <dave.cushman@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris
>
>
> > I was wondering if it could be fed to the bees (safely).
>
> Unless you are certain of the original source, do not feed it to bees...
> the disease risk is very high.
>
> You can sprinkle it on your porridge at breakfast time.
>
> Feeding pollen to bees is relatively complex...
> http://dave-cushman.net/bee/droneraise.html
> and would be difficult in Warre hives, bees will not move pollen more
> than a nominal 80 mm to point of use.
>
> --
> Regards & Best 73s, Dave Cushman, G8MZY
> http://melliferabees.net Email: dave.cushman@...
> Short FallBack M/c, Build 7.21/2.01
> Son of ORAC M/c, Build 5.o1/2.o1
>