> In fact, Reed Johnson's latest paper follows extensive multi-year work he's done along the same lines as the Nature paper

Right, I remember when that came out. I read so much stuff that I am losing the ability to retain it. But that was one of the papers where they found Fraxinus pollen, which so many people assure us that honey bees don't collect.

> Pollen from the families Rosaceae (commonly species of Malus Mill., Crataegus L., Amelanchier Medik., Prunus L., and other cultivated relatives) and Salicaceae (predominantly Salix L. spp.) comprised over 65% of our samples (Fig. 1). Pollen from plants in the Asteraceae (Taraxacum officinale F. H. Wigg.) and Oleaceae (Fraxinus L. spp.) were also abundant.

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