Dr Raquel Martin-Hernandez found spores in corbicular pollen, so it
might persist in stored pollen.
Was it, I wonder, on the pollen when collected or,(more likely in my view) in the regurgited nectar used to moisten and bind the pollen for easy transport in the corbicula?
Chris
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