Something for the bees

Usage examples of pollen.

Planting new male mulberry trees is prohibited by law because their pollen is a powerful allergen, and Tucson gains profit and riches as a refuge for allergy sufferers and hypochondriacs.

Sprengel has shown, and as I can confirm, either the anthers burst before the stigma is ready for fertilisation, or the stigma is ready before the pollen of that flower is ready, so that these plants have in fact separated sexes, and must habitually be crossed.

For in continuance of the vertical principle of the plant, the pistil and carpel represent the male aspect in the process of spiritual anastomosis, and the mobile, wind- or insect-borne pollen, in continuing the spiral principle, represents the female part.

She had no more blossomy openings dusting pollen over her man, neither any glistening young fruit where the petals used to be.

This pollen from the transgenetic corn, or TG corn, then lands in the milkweed that surrounds most cornfields.

Oh, yes, I suspect a few butterflies have died from eating milkweed with TG corn pollen on it.

In the case of the misseltoe, which draws its nourishment from certain trees, which has seeds that must be transported by certain birds, and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from one flower to the other, it is equally preposterous to account for the structure of this parasite, with its relations to several distinct organic beings, by the effects of external conditions, or of habit, or of the volition of the plant itself.

Franklin Reynolds, of this town, crossed the Cannon-Ball Cabbage on the Schweinfurt Quintal, by carefully transferring the pollen of the former on the latter, the stamens having first been removed, and immediately tying muslin around the impregnated blossoms to keep away all insects.

Most of them the result of placing bitternut hickory pollen on staminate butternut flowers.

Some of them might have weathered a Ghost Wind, an unseasonable release of kireseth pollen.

Then kicking the wounded basket a vicious blow with the toe of his boot, he spun on his heels, leaped on the bare back of the Andalusian stallion, and galloped off in a shower of churned-up sod and pollen spores, coattails flying.

Hush knew how to site an orchard, how to make a graft take life on the rootstock, how to draw bees covered in pollen every spring, how to store apples for months every winter.

Taking full advantage of the weather, wild bees were frantically gathering nectar and pollen before winter descended and shut off their supply until spring.

The bees occupied room-sized chambers in which standard wood Langstroth hives bad been placed, with combs filled with honey, and pollen hung on the back walls, which opened into the flying area.

These bees gather pollen but no honey, and therefore must be dumb in the deepest sense of the word.