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Plants have sex by mail, and bees are the mailmen who never read the address.
means The transfer of pollen from the male part of a flower to the female part, enabling plants to fertilize and reproduce.
from From Latin 'pollen,' meaning fine flour or dust — the Romans used it for the powdery stuff in mills before botanists borrowed it for the fine dust in flowers. 'Pollination' itself is an 18th-century scientific coinage, built once naturalists realized that flower dust wasn't just decorative grime but the plant equivalent of sperm, needing a verb to describe its journey from anther to stigma.
- no sex without it
- one in three bites of food depends on pollinators
- wind does it too
- grasses and conifers skip bugs entirely, just blast pollen
- bats count
- over 500 plant species rely on bats, not bees
- flowers are bribes
- nectar and color exist purely to pay for delivery