Cleaning and Reusing Pollen Bound Frames - Jacksonville FL Zone 9a 

Terrific video! Thank you.

Thanks for the video. I had a few hives with 8-9 frames of pollen (2 deeps X 10 frames boxes) really is helpful I never know what to do with pollen bound frames now I know. I have a whole deep freezer of pierco frames pollen bound. THANK YOU Chuck!

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This is helpful, thank you

OMG you just saved my bees so much work. I have a box or 2 in the freezer to kill any moths and will be soaking them in some lightly bleached water tomorrow I was about 4 hrs to late for the other frames but was wondering about getting the pollen out of the cells on the foundation to re wax. Thanks from Panama City

I would freeze them and give them to bees from a cut out or swarm catch. Resources like that can be invaluable to a new freshly cought hive. I get my bees from catching swarms and doing cutouts or splitting. Brood comb and frames with resources are necessary to jump start swarms, with that they build up much faster. I cought a good swarm last year in March and was able to harvest some honey from them the same year and left them plenty to overwinter on.

Another great video .... Chuck ..... thank you

Great video. Learned a lot. I have the same issue with one of my hives. It will give my queen more room to lay. Thanks

TEK here in south-east Queensland Australia. I have experimented with pollen frames and it has worked - the bees WILL use the pollen. By placing my pollen frames above the an excluder in the centre of the next Super, I have found that Bees will clean them out very very quickly sometimes within 48 hours to place nectar in those frames.

Thanks. Great idea. I have a few of these frames. I always wonder if the bees could use all of that pollen or not. In my area it seems there are pollen sources year round. I guess I will mark the pollen frames and give them to the smaller colonies and see if they ever use them. If not, I will clean them out with your method 👍

I used a comb packed with pollen when I am starting a split. It is resources for them. Two-three frames of brood, one with pollen and one with honey.

No more scrapping. Question when should the brood frames be scraped, every 3/4 years?

Great video Chuck!

Do you find mold growing on the comb in a few days following the washing out of the bee bread.

Very useful

This is a wonderful tip, Chuck. Here in southwestern PA we are having a banner year for resources so this is very useful info. Off subject for a second I was wondering how you handle colonies that are busting at the seams this late in the season. If I would split them, they may not have time to rear a new queen this late but I don't want to risk a swarm taking this years queen away with them. Could you do a video on managing this or any advice would be helpful.

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