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Yellow rain — a palynological analysis

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Yellow rain, purported to be an agent of toxin warfare in South-East Asia, contains a high percentage of pollen. Analysis of this pollen in yellow rain samples suggests that they are the faeces of honey bees.

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  1. Botany Department, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 20560, USA

    Joan W. Nowicke

  2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, USA

    Matthew Meselson

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Nowicke, J., Meselson, M. Yellow rain — a palynological analysis. Nature 309, 205–206 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/309205a0

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