Pollen types

[Popparand]

Bees are bringing in bright yellow pollen like billyo. Is there a downloadable chart anywhere I can use to identify different types of pollen?

 

[linoleum bonypart]

Type in Google pollen colour chart

 

[Popparand]

Type in Google pollen colour chart

Thanks very helpful.

 

[Beefriendly]

Bees are bringing in bright yellow pollen like billyo. Is there a downloadable chart anywhere I can use to identify different types of pollen?

Just beware non of the online charts I've seen have been very accurate and have many pollen's assigned wrong colours plus your monitor settings will affect how different colours appear.
There are many pollen's that are the same colour...so your yellow could be from a number of plants. Beech/Bluebells/Oil seed rape/laurel/dogwood/Elder etc
The only sure fire way is to look at the size and structure under a microscope....and even that can be tricky.

But try and find "Pocket Pollen Colour guide" which is small card with the main pollen sources on.
A good book is "A colour guide to pollen loads of the honey bee" by Kirk....there is at least one error in there!

 

[Poly Hive]

As I have said times these charts are a guide not a be all and end all due to the problems with screen resolutions and inks.

The only way that I know of to be really sure is the microscope and no doubt some expert in that field would say possibly not totally so.

As I say its a guide as some pollens change with age, with water availability and so on and so on.

PH