Pollen is produced by the anthers of flowers.

What the honey bee does it pollinates, takes nectar from the flower, pollinates another flower, cross pollinates.

Each anther can carry up to 100,000 grains of pollen, so, it's quite prolific stuff.

They get paid by pollen and nectar, to move that male sperm, the pollen, from flower to flower.

A different pollen signature, if you like, or a different pollen fingerprint.

Now, pollen from plants, which are wind dispersed like trees and grasses and so on tend to cause the most hay fever.

very small pink roses.

And I'll suggest that this coal is about as exciting as this chalk.

I am allergic to pollen.

Most pollen that causes hay fever for us is from plants that use the wind to disseminate the pollen, and that's a very inefficient process, which is why it gets up our noses so much.

Now, here's a piece of chalk.

That's a geranium pollen.

Cool pollen, though.

This is the Monterey Pine, which has little air sacks to make the pollen carry even further.

The insects and other species can take the pollen, transfer it directly to where it's required.

My nose! My hay fever!

Pollen is a flower's way of making more flowers.

Sometimes, she said, before the people come on, she may hallucinate pink and blue squares on the floor, which seem to go up to the ceiling.

She was killed dead, darling. Went down like a rock.

That little hole in the middle there is for the pollen tube, and when the pollen finds its special female spot in another Morina flower, just on the right species, what happens?

They build up a static electric charge and the pollen jumps on them and helps spread that pollen from bloom to bloom.

And they get inside, and they get it all on.

And it isn't just bright flowers that have pollen it's also trees and grasses.

So, that's 20 micrometers across, that pollen grain there.

But anyway, take a look at its pollen.

What these bees do is, they sit there. These solitary bees, they drill a hole in the ground or drill a hole in a branch, and they collect pollen and make it into a ball, and they lay an egg on it.

Shucked out 75 for this here truck.

And it's really rather better not to mate with yourself.

First of all, pollen is tiny. Yes we know that.

Probably you are allergic to pollen or dust.

And the plant showers them with pollen, and off they go and pollinate.

These are the anthers of a lily, cleverly done so that when the unsuspecting insect lands on it, the anther flips up and whops it on the back with a great load of pollen that it then goes to another plant with.

Nine of diamonds and a possible flush.

Now with the pollination, it's a very serious issue for plants, because they move the pollen from one flower to the other, yet they cannot move from one flower to the other.

When they're out pollinating or gathering pollen from one flower, they stay to that crop exclusively, in order to help generate.

And there is as many different kinds of pollen as there are flowering plants.

At the species level, it's been estimated that insect based pollination, bees pollinating fruit and so on, is something like 190 billion dollars worth.

Like I said, pollen carries the male sex cells.

It cost me 300.

What gets me is spending 3.95 for that miserable fan.

Three diamonds and a possible.

And of course, they're made to carry this pollen.

But pollen forensics can be very subtle.

I took a stand, paid half a grand!

Let you spend the five dollars on me.