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bee pollen
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bee pollen,
n mixture of flower pollen, honeybee digestive juices, and nectar. Has been used therapeutically for asthma, allergic conditions, im-potence, bleeding stomach ulcers, altitude sickness, as a dietary supple-ment has been used for cancer, high cholesterol, and cardiac conditions. Should not be used if allergic to pollen or by diabetic patients who are using insulin or hypoglycemic medications.
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Honeybees take this sap, combine it with nectar from their own secretions, and end up with a mixture of wax, pollen, and bee bread before it is used in the hive.
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Females will soon return to this site to dig new breeding chambers and lay eggs provisioned with bee bread - a paste of pollen and nectar - and then their brief lives above ground will be over for another year.
Country diary by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
You have to be concerned about their resources: Is there enough honey and bee bread to allow the colony to appropriately and fully feed the hatching larvae?
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