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Though the gods drank nectar, pollen would have been far better for them: pollen (which is a male reproductive spore) is a startlingly rich source of proteins and fats, contains carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. This discovery was announced last week by James I. Hambleton, chief U.S. apiarist at Beltsville, Md. Apiarist Hambleton and co-workers have invented a trap to collect pollen by the ton: a screen doorstep in front of a beehive, which brushes pollen off the hairy legs of bees and drops it into a box below. As much as 70 lb. of pollen can be gathered each...
Texas researchers last year found that royal jelly, the substance secreted and fed to the queen bees by the workers, is two and a half to six times richer in pantothenic acid-a vitamin of the B complex-than yeast or liver. Hambleton believes that pollen will prove to have a similar content, may soon become a major source of vitamin extracts...
...pollen trap also enables apiarists to increase their swarms. In winter bees subsist on stored-up honey and pollen. A beekeeper who carefully gleans bee-dropped pollen, then feeds it back to his swarms in more generous quantities than the bees themselves would store it, will find his insects from 25 to 100% more numerous at winter...
...late autumn, the yellow and red pigments, following the green, disintegrate in the leaves. This final unmasking reveals the dull brown tannins, which are chemically so stable that they remain till the leaf rots to powder. Unlike flower pigments, which have the vital function of attracting pollen-spreading insects and birds, autumn's colorful foliage is just a meaningless, glorious show...
Since all beginning, pollen of blossoming godhead...