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homemade pollen patty in a small pan lined with wax paper

Pollen Patty Recipe

How to make a pollen patty to nourish a backyard beehive in the production of baby bees and improve colony vitality before Spring honey flow.

Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 6
Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Mix the Bee-Pro, sugar, honey, and optional Apis Biologix powder with the filtered water in a bowl to form a dough ball.

  2. Blend well.

  3. Line a small pan (I use 12x8) with a similarly sized sheet of wax paper or uncoated patapar paper (NOT parchment paper).

  4. Pour in the pollen patty dough and spread to roughly 1/4 inch thickness.

  5. Place the pan in the freezer for at least 4 hours (this makes removal the easiest).

  6. When ready, remove pan from the freezer and cut a small square of the frozen patty including the paper. The square should be about 1/6 of the whole pan (about 4x4 inches).

  7. Place the patty face down in the beehive you are feeding, ideally on top of existing brood frames. This patty will be consumed within about 2-3 days.

    If your hive has multiple levels, place the patty face down on the queen excluder between the primary bottom box and the box immediately above it.

  8. In one week, remove the paper left from the consumed patty and replace it with a freshly cut square.

    Repeat every week for 6-7 weeks until the entire patty is gone and Spring honey flow season begins!