Word: pollenation
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...corrolas of May flowers had spread open, and now their stigmas waved about, lewdly coated with sick secretions. The pollen which fell in showers from the pines would adhere to them and attempt a kind of sodomy, but success would be reserved for pollen of the same species...In the forest, maple twigs could not be bruised in this season, in fact could barely be touched, without causing the sweet sap to ejaculate into...
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...Environmental Protection Agency permitted a new, less dangerous form of the pesticide. Marketed commercially as Penncap-M by the Pennwalt Corp. of Philadelphia, it is contained in microscopic plastic capsules about the size of pollen grains. These effectively protect humans but gradually release the still potent pesticide onto crops. What scientists did not realize was that honeybees would innocently pick up the capsules as they flew from blossom to blossom gathering pollen and nectar...
Because of the chemical's shell, the bee is at first unaffected and blithely returns to the hive to make honey. But the following spring, or even two years later, disaster strikes. Larvae and young bees eat the stored pollen that has been poisoned by the chemical and die. By Entomologist Roy Barker's reckoning, just a few capsules may be enough to devastate a colony of 50,000 bees...