Keeping pollen fresh

[menteth]

Hello everyone,
I hope your bees are all fine and happy.

Quick question:

I united two hives (both 14x12 national). One was queenless for about 3/4 weeks (and the Poor little things had nothing to do but collect pollen, with no babies to feed).

The hive was crammed with pollen (and nectar stores too).

I united. But am left with 11 frames full of pollen and some stores too.

Is there a way of storing pollen filled frames. ie can you put then in a freezer?
Can I put them aside until autumn? and then distribute amongst my other hives?
Will the pollen keep that long?

Best to you all

PS I've noticed that since clearing the hive, that wax moth moved in pretty quickly. Would a quick freeze sort this?

 

[Bakerbee]

Yes freeze them straight away. As soon as you remove frames you must remember that they are not being maintained by the bees, temp, insects, humidity ect. In the past I've learned the costly way of being too slow to freeze and lost good frames (Apart from fully capped stores or frames extracted from then cleaned dry by the bees) I freeze everything else.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Freeze. They are a valuable resource