
Guest speaker Mike Embrey on pollen and its uses
Mike Embrey spoke at our November meeting about pollen and its uses. Bees collect pollen from flowers and in the process transfer pollen from plant to plant, pollinating the plants. While foraging, bees will store pollen on their legs in pollen pellets held together with nectar or saliva/lactic acid. Bees can forage an area up to 6,000 acres (about a 2 mile radius) and therefore the pollen they collect is a mixture from various plants of the same species. Bees will collect di