National Geographic: Pollen-covered honeybees (Apis mellifera) hang out in a pumpkin in Germany. But the pollen that bees carry isn't the kind that makes you sneeze every spring.
When one tree loves another tree very much, it releases pollen to fertilize the ovules of that tree, plus whatever other trees happen to be around (you know how it goes). But when the pollen begins to blow, you're probably not marveling at the miracle of tree reproduction-you're dreading the allergies that accompany it.
The reason that...