Pollen

Air quality going to be good today.

Pollen is on the low side.

UV index A3, which is moderate.

So this afternoon, some sun through quite a bit of high cloud cover at times.

Somebody could say, yeah, I got allergies.

Pollen's in the air.

It's fall.

Ragweed.

So how are trees sending you to the hospital? Okay, well, tree pollen can build on many factors and cause asthma flare-ups, right? Like where breathing gets difficult and there could be a lot of coughing, wheezing, and chest tightness because of the pollen irritating the airways, right? And I thought I was alone and I learned that it's not just a me problem.

There are tens of millions of people like me in the U.S. who suffer from asthma.

Pollen interacts with the air pollution from the cars and the trucks, and that makes the pollen basically like super pollen, and that makes them much more allergenic.

Nate, that's Tom Ogren, a horticulturalist based in San Luis Obispo, California.

As the climate changes...

One of those seasons, Jay says, runs from around May into early July.

It's a very intense season, one giant season, six to eight weeks long, and it causes a lot of misery in the late spring, early summer months.

Pollen tends to decrease in July and early August.

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Pollen blasted in January.

Yeah.

Whole thing's fucked.

We're in the midst of our Indian summer, so the days are nice and warm and dry.

Pollen's a killer, but the evenings are crisp and cool, and when you go out in the morning, when you're gotten enough to work, you could... feel the dew and it's still kind of got that that sharpness of the air it's really nice it's this is probably one of my favorite times of the year

screwed up a couple times already so um a couple nights ago it was i had a frost advisory potential of getting down to 31 overnight it did not it did not but it was did you

have to go outside and save something

Our immune system has something come into our body, and it's saying, "Whoa, what is this?" That's called an allergen.

Bottom line, it mistakenly identifies these harmless substances like pollen.

Pollen is the biggie, but certainly there's also what they call pet dander, which is basically, uh, easy way of saying this is like they're microscopic animal dandruff.

And you've heard plenty of people that, yes, are allergic to cats or allergic to dogs.

There's so many allergens out there.

This substance serves as an energy source for flight and for maintaining hive temperature during the winter.

Pollen is also collected and processed into bee bread to provide protein and fat for the developing brood.

Through centuries of selective breeding, managed bees now produce significantly more honey than they require for their own survival, allowing beekeepers to harvest the surplus.

Several types of hives are used today, including the Langstroth and Top Bar designs.

This wax is harvested by humans for making candles and various types of seals.

Bee pollen.

Pollen is carried to the hive in specialized baskets on the bees' legs.

It is fermented into bee bread to serve as a protein source for the young and can also be used as a human supplement.

End of Part 3 Part 4 of The Medicine Men of the Apache by John Gregory Bourke This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

Part 4 Chapter 2 Hodenten, the Pollen of the Tuli, the Sacrificial Powder of the Apache, with Remarks upon Sacred Powders and Bread Offerings in General Trifles not infrequently lead to important results.

In every walk of science a trifle disregarded by incurious thousands has repaid the inquisitiveness of a single observer with unhoped-for knowledge.

The taciturnity of the Apache in regard to all that concerns their religious ideas is a very marked feature of their character.

Some relation would appear to be suggested.

End of Part IV Part V of The Medicine Men of the Apache by John Gregory Burke This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

Part V Use of Pollen by the Israelites and Egyptians There are some suggestions of a former use of pollen among the Israelites and Egyptians.

Manna, which we are assured was at one time a source of food to the Hebrews, was afterward retained as an offering in the temples.