Hope Jahren

Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out.

American Scientist

Tatiana Schlossberg

Ice cores, which are long cylinders scientists extract from glaciers, ice sheets or ice caps, contain gas bubbles, pollen, dust particles, or chemical isotopes that give scientists clues about what Earth's temperature and atmosphere were like when the ice caps first formed.

Alain Ducasse

My wife Gwenaelle prepares an 'energy shot' for me for breakfast. It's a mix of linseed, cereal, and raisins, with fresh fruit like kiwi. She also adds yogurt for added texture and some pollen and honey for an energy booster.

French Chef

Nina Fedoroff

We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.

Mikhail Varshavski

If they are going to be outside, make sure you wash your pets, because your pets will bring in a ton of pollen and they will roll around in your bed sheets, and now you're rolling around in pollen all night.

American Celebrity

Pollen counts are generally high early in the mornings 8 to 10 A.M. to noon. So stay away from being outdoors early in the mornings.

Stephen Curry

I have allergies, and I've had my share of nosebleeds, but that's usually related to pollen.

American Athlete

James Russell Lowell

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

American Poet

Pollen is crucial for plant reproduction and is carried by animals or the wind.

Botanical Role

Pollen is often visible as a fine yellow powder covering the stamen of flowers.

Visibility

Pollen levels are talked about especially during spring, when many plants bloom.

Seasonal Term

Many people are sensitive to pollen, which can cause sneezing or itching.

Allergy Trigger

Pollen is often most prevalent and problematic for allergies in springtime.

Pollen Season

Pollen counts are sometimes included in weather reports to warn allergy sufferers.

Weather Reports

Pollen can be consumed for its potential health benefits, not just an allergen.

Health Supplement

Bee pollen is collected by bees and is different from airborne pollen grains.

Bee Product

Bee pollen is praised for health benefits but may not be medically proven.

Not a Cure-all

 So one thing I want to encourage you to think about is the idea of what an urban island is. You think in the city maybe the temperature's warmer. Why are bees doing better in the city? This is a big question now to help us understand why they should be in the city. Perhaps there's more pollen in the city. With the trains coming in to urban hubs, they can

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 Like the rest of us, sexual reproduction is how Pando came into the world in the first place all those tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago. The wind or a pollinator carried pollen from the flower of one of its parents to the other, where a sperm cell fertilized an egg. That flower produced fruit, which split open,

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 To create apples with desirable characteristics, breeders first need to find parent apples that carry those characteristics. Once the parents have been selected, they have to wait until the trees bloom in the spring. The breeder takes the pollen from one bloom, called the father,

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 a chemical that makes our capillaries swell. This enables increased blood flow, which helpfully accelerates the body's immune response to this perceived threat. That explains the swelling, and it's the same reason pollen can make your eyes puff up.

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 Household dust also contains substances that blow in from the wider world. Depending on the local geology, finely ground quartz, coal, or volcanic ash might enter the air as atmospheric dust, along with pollen and fungal spores.

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 which contains a world of possibilities. This small slice of air is composed of numerous small particles including pollen, fungal spores, and liquid droplets, alongside trace gases like methane and carbon dioxide.

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 Like I said, pollen carries the male sex cells. If you actually didn't realize that plants have sex, they have rampant, promiscuous and really quite interesting and curious sex. Really. A lot.

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 the basket is filled with pollen and other ceremonial objects as their ancestors did the girls run toward the Rising Sun circling the basket four times to mark the four stages of life

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 and tuck in not only do they consume the pollen when that runs out they will eat the young bee larvae too around the world people are now