Subject: "What About Pollen in South Africa?" 🐝🍯

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"What is Pollen about?"

Source:https://pollencount.co.za/why-monitor/

So Why? - Bee Pollen

Bee pollen contains many vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, making it incredibly healthy. Studies have linked bee pollen and its compounds to health benefits such as decreased inflammation, as well as improved immunity, menopausal symptoms and wound healing.

Pollen has carotenoids, chlorophyll, it is loaded with vitamins and phenolic compounds, and has essential amino acids that provide a higher nutritional value in pollen compared to honey

There are various benefits to harvesting and eating bee pollen. When harvesting unfermented pollen - pollen from within the hive - there are some differences in finished product.

Bee pollen compounds

Source: Nutrients. 2021 Jun; 13(6): 1876. Published online 2021 May 31. doi: 10.3390/nu13061876

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Biomes-of-South-Africa-Lesotho-and-Swaziland_fig2_288881136

source: https://pollencount.co.za/report-year/2021/

The SAPNET SET UP

The way forward: South African Pollen Network and Monitoring Programme (SAPNET)

The need for a pollen monitoring network in South Africa has been outlined above. Already in 2007, the necessity of a national network of spore traps in South Africa as 'a collaborative exercise between allergists and the botany or palynology departments of the local universities' was underlined.²³

A network of this scale requires substantial funding; a strong, dedicated team of collaborators; and widespread public and institutional support.

SAPNET was launched in August 2019 at the University of Cape Town Lung Institute and 7-day volumetric Burkard spore traps were placed in seven major South African cities. [(http://www.pollencount.co.za/)]

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Sources:

Ajikah, L., Neumann, F. H., Berman, D., & Peter, J. (2020). Aerobiology in South Africa: A new hope!. South African Journal of Science, 116(7/8). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/8112