In “pollen speak”, pine pollen is considered large (60-100 micrometers in size compared to other pollen grains, which are mostly approximately 10 micrometers) and as such, should be too heavy to travel through the air. However, to compensate to its large size, pine pollen has two air capsules that are attached to either side of the pollen grain itself; if you were to look at pine pollen under a microscope, it would look like a Mickey Mouse head with the ears being the capsules. The air capsules reduce the weight of the pollen grain and make it easier to travel though the air. When the pine pollen settles out of the air and onto the water, the same air capsules make the pollen grains buoyant, so they float on the water. As the wind blows toward shore, the grains are pushed into one another and creates what appears to be a latex paint like mass along the shoreline.
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Pretty cool....now lets just get through the pollen season! Each year it seems to get worse and worse.
Yuck!
DelMarVa is a bad area to live in for COPD / Astma / Bronchitis !!! Fact
Looks like my driveway after it rains.
It's nature fighting back against the real virus: The modern Human being and our infection of this planet.
Soon to be seen everywhere on the Shore.
There it is > cocaine beach !!! People lining up to snort it up !!!! LOL
You should see what my cars, and roof of my house, look like here in my development in the Pocomoke Forest. Can't tell the color of either. I can't walk out of the house, without my mask on, without breaking into sneezing fits. It's impossible to breathe without nasal and lung irritation.
It can KILL you too !! It makes me deathly sick every year Spring Fall Winter
Last time I had it for over 3 months !!! The ONLY drug that worked is
TRELEGY !!! When you get it bad like me (COPD-Astma ) Try that !!!
Nothing worse than not being able to Breath !!!
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