Hard Working Bees Need Pollen! by Heather Mattila

[@showmebees9431]

Excellent presentation! I can certainly see how pollen stress as you described can send a colony into a spiral. If all the nurse bees in a colony are pollen stressed they make less frequent and more brief visits to the brood and perpetuate the pollen stress to successive generations. Very thought provoking.

[@OklahomaBeekeeper]

Learned things that I had never thought about before. Thank you for sharing your work and findings.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Can you mitigate the stress issues by feeding Protein supplements ?

[@bwiagriculturenetwork6964]

Well done...

[@tomdowser]

Confirmed my suspicions, thank you for sharing. Well organized and thought provoking. Cheers

[@bradgoliphant]

Hello--question for you. Why would we not feed bees "regular ground organic pollen" without all the substitutes? Is there a reason why I would not want to do this and use the substitute instead? I'm personally not a fan of feeding bees essential oils. But what are your thoughts. Thanks.

[@PJMDS]

Very interesting topic and good speaker, thanks

[@cqammaz53]

It is late July and I have had my 1 deep box for 1 month now. I'm very concern about the health of my new Italian bees. I was told not to add pollen to the sugar water ONLY add 1/4 tsp to a gallon of sugar water of Honey B Healthy so the bees can have enough food for this winter. Do you agree with that dietary suggesting or do you feel I should add pollen supplement to the sugar water? Now or in the future months, I think the bees are bringing in some pollen from my area. and yes most of my neighbors do have some flowers.

[@الوفاءالمثالي]

Nice , we sell honey and bee products since 1986 ,

[@nailladi1]

Amazing info, thank you.

[@irhunter]

Great presentation. Answers questions about current issue in my apiary. I know research funding is always an issue, but have you considered using optical scanners?

[@charlesoneill466]

I feed my bees pollen patties. Sometimes whole frames will be filled with pollen. Can their be too much pollen? Thanks

[@jasongentry7405]

I can't help but wonder about mite loads. That is a variable, unless I missed it, that was not talked about and would be influential.

[@adiqais]

what exactly do you mean by stressed workers?

[@joejohnson9796]

not having enough pollen during the 5-6 days of larva development.

[@fisherofmen1776]

I have colonys with way to much pollen. How does this happen? I'm having to thin it out so the queen will not swarm.