my amateur call sign used to be N2UPA. I let it expire in 2003.

Scot McPherson

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 10:49 AM, pointydog<pointydog@...> wrote:
>
>
> 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:
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>> 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
>>
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>



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Scot McPherson, CISSP, MCSA
McPherson Family Farms
Le Claire, IA, USA