Word: pollenating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a plant's point of view, its flowers are only a means to an end. Their purpose is to attract pollen-carrying insects. Once the ovules are fertilized, the plant devotes its energies to nurturing the infant seeds and so does not produce as many flowers as it might. This is good for the plant's posterity, but bad for flower lovers...
...center of the painting is a sacred cornstalk, growing from what the Navajos call a "Shapen Cloud." Four benevolent Humpback deities stand at the outer edges, carrying staffs and black clouds filled with the fruits of the earth. Grouped around the cornstalk are eight gods and goddesses gathering healing pollen. On the north are the roundheaded earth gods, black and red, with white-coated, oblong-headed goddesses. On the south are blue and yellow water gods, with goddesses. Each god is laced with zigzag lightning, haloed with plumes of the red-tailed woodpecker, and armed with a bow and rattle...
...stirs, he stirs, he stirs, he stirs. Among the lands of dawning, he stirs, he stirs; The pollen of dawning, he stirs, he stirs...
Last summer the Jirps established their headquarters on a "nunatak," a rocky island in the Taku glacier. The scientists analyzed it for layers of summer pollen grains and proved that they could be used like the growth rings of a tree to measure the age of the ice. They explored the cold depths with drills and with shock waves from explosions. They took samples of wood from ancient trees left behind like exhumed corpses by the huge Mendenhall glacier, in the southeastern part of the field. When the ages of these trees have been measured by the carbon 14 method...
...carbon dioxide or nitrogen. The bees soon recovered, but with changed personalities. Young workers that had been tending the baby bees forsook their charges and started gathering nectar, to be stored up in the combs and made into honey.* Older workers, that had been gathering both nectar and pollen (for baby bees), usually gathered nothing but nectar thenceforth. The gassing caused both age groups to ignore the colony's system of cooperative reproduction. Only one emotion remained: greed for more & more nectar...