[Pollinator] Mosses and "pollinators"

[Ladadams@aol.com]

This is REALLY cool!  Who would of thought that mosses could be
"pollinated" so to speak.   Makes sense, though, in Desert conditions.  Be
sure to click on the video of sperm transfer.  It's amazing!

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/901/1

Teresa Prendusi, Regional Botanist
U.S. Forest Service, Intermountain Region
324 25th St., Ogden, UT  84401
Ph. (801) 625-5522
Fax (801) 625-5483
E-mail:  tprendusi at fs.fed.us

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy
the whole time to have the things about us."
Iris Murdoch


Laurie Davies Adams
Executive Director
Coevolution Institute
423 Washington St. 5th
San Francisco, CA 94111
415 362 1137
http://www.coevolution.org/
http://www.pollinator.org/
http://www.nappc.org/

See the above websites for details on the Pollinator Symposium 
at the USDA Jefferson Auditorium on October 18, 2006 
Everyone welcome. REGISTER NOW!

Our future flies on the wings of pollinators.