TOP BAR PROTEIN

摘要

Feeding a pollen substitute helps stimulate brood production during different seasonal conditions.In my location, Piedmont, VA (mid-Atlantic), the Fall nectar and pollen flow is marginal (from golden rod and aster). Summer rains help to enhance the pollen coming in by early Fall. Conversely, a dry Summer can easily cause a pollen shortage. Rampant seasonal mowing also destroys these resources (see Figure 1). In late Summer and early Fall, the need for pollen is critical. During this time colonies produce their long-lived over-wintering bees needed to sustain the colony until the following Spring.