pollen

As an archaeologist in southern Scandinavia, I studied peat cores for pollen, fallen into nearby wetlands centuries earlier, to understand the nature of the historical plant life and climate of a particular site.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Bogong moths are thought to help plants spread pollen and are also a key food source for the mountain pygmy possum, a critically endangered cave-dwelling marsupial.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

In their role as nighttime pollinators, they distribute pollen from the flowers of numerous food-producing plants, carrying it on their fur and faces, according to the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources division.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The disease is carried by the Asian citrus psyllid, a non-native insect so tiny it can be mistaken for pollen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

They gave her blue pollen and yellow pollen they gave her turquoise beads they gave her prayer sticks.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

They also produced artificial foods designed to mimic either the amino acid composition of different pollens or the composition of honeybee tissues.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

So there's no evidence that spreading local honey on your toast will help hay fever caused by grass and tree pollens.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2025

“We’ve now got three different dating techniques—radiocarbon dating of the seeds, radiocarbon dating of the pollens and luminescence dating of the quartz—that all show people were there.”

From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023

Raw honey is honey that has not been heated to a temperature that would kill the living enzymes and also hasn't had the pollens filtered out.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2023

These pollens were also applied to our best Chinese trees.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 by Northern Nut Growers Association