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In most agricultural settings, on most of our farms, it's only the seed that's coated with the insecticide, and so a smaller concentration moves through the plant and gets into the pollen and nectar, and if a bee consumes this lower dose, either nothing happens or the bee becomes intoxicated and disoriented and she may not find her way home.
So under an endless rain of cosmic dust, the air is full of pollen, micro-diamonds and jewels from other planets and supernova explosions.
The first game asks me to fly a bee up and down to gather pollen to deposit in beehives, all while avoiding the other bugs.
They hang around until the mating flight, but they don't participate in gathering nectar or pollen.
That explains the swelling, and it's the same reason pollen can make your eyes puff up.
Lots of evidence from sediment cores and the pollen types, oxygen isotopes and so on.
Like other flowers, most orchids need to attract insects to gather their pollen and carry it between plants.
This disguise is so convincing that male bees land on the orchid and try to have sex with it, picking up pollen as they go.
When a male wasp lands on the hammer orchid, for example, his enthusiastic mating motion flips a hinge in the flower, forcing his body into the pollen.
They get paid by pollen and nectar, to move that male sperm, the pollen, from flower to flower.
So in an apple orchard, for instance, you'll have rows of 10 apples of one variety, and then you have another apple tree that's a different type of pollen.
When they're out pollinating or gathering pollen from one flower, they stay to that crop exclusively, in order to help generate.
And of course, they're made to carry this pollen.
They build up a static electric charge and the pollen jumps on them and helps spread that pollen from bloom to bloom.
These solitary bees, they drill a hole in the ground or drill a hole in a branch, and they collect pollen and make it into a ball, and they lay an egg on it.
Community tools, like text messaging, that can tell you when pollen counts are up or smog levels are rising or a natural disaster is unfolding, can give you the information you need to act in a timely fashion.
And then they were so clever, they found a way to analyze fossilized pollen.
The fossilized pollen was not of savanna vegetation.
Asthma: large number, we could detect things like pollen count, air quality, respiratory rate.
The first is to tell you something about pollen, I hope, and to convince you that it's more than just something that gets up your nose.
Each anther can carry up to 100,000 grains of pollen, so, it's quite prolific stuff.
And it isn't just bright flowers that have pollen; it's also trees and grasses.
Here is a scanning electron micrograph of a grain of pollen.
The little hole in the middle, we'll come to a bit later, but that's for the pollen tube to come out later on.
So, that's 20 micrometers across, that pollen grain there.
But not all pollen is quite so simple looking.
But anyway, take a look at its pollen.
That little hole in the middle there is for the pollen tube, and when the pollen finds its special female spot in another Morina flower, just on the right species, what happens?
Like I said, pollen carries the male sex cells.
A lot. My story is actually not about plant propagation, but about pollen itself.
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