Love is in the air... !

Micronaut's first article for National Geographic has been published in the December issue 2009.

Text by Rob R. Dunn (visit the author's website)
Photography by Martin Oeggerli

Pollen grains (from the left to the right):

• Pumpkin
• Acanthus family
• Pine
• Acacia
• Composite flower
• Forget-me-not

The article is accessible in various languages: English - Japanese - Portuguese - Greek - Spanish - Dutch - Latvian - Romanian - Slovenian - Turkish - Italian - French - Swedish - Danish - Finnish - Norse - Magyr - Polish - Bulgarian

Two images have made it on the National Geographic cover:
- Geranium pistil (left: National Geographic - Slovenia & Bulgaria)
- Salix pollen (right: National Geographic - Japan)

Please feel free to browse the Micronaut image gallery, if you wish to see more images of pollen. For further reading, the palynological database of my partners from the University of Vienna (www.paldat.org), is highly recommended.