Word: bee
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...BEE DUNG...
Meselson and Seeley dropped their bee bombshell at a Harvard press conference last week, following a ten-day trip to Thailand in which they observed bee defecation flights and said they were caught in a five-minute shower of bee feces...
This skepticism began with their observations that bee feces bore striking similarities--in size, appearance, and characteristics--to alleged samples of yellow rain, many of which contained pollen...
University of Minnesota plant pathologist Chester J. Mirocha said that Meselson's findings were irrelevant to the whole debate, because the samples of leaves containing mycotoxins did not have the yellow spots which resemble bee feces...
...added that he and Seeley brought back samples of bee feces and foods to test for such substances--which would be further proof in his mind that they cause the yellow rain...