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Bees enter through small holes in a pollen trap that scrape pollen off their legs as they pass through, dropping it into a basket below. The presenter shows how the trap works and where it sits on the hive.
Bees enter through small holes in a pollen trap that scrape pollen off their legs as they pass through, dropping it into a basket below. The presenter shows how the trap works and where it sits on the hive.
It has no alternative way in to get into the beehive, to get into the brood nest, other than going through some very carefully sized holes, which knocks the pollen off the bees' legs and into the basket below. I'll take this brood box off now and I'll show you the pollen trap and I'll show you exactly how it works.
