Hay fever season is upon us

Comments

• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  A shitpost but deserves some nerdy clarification. Flowers pollinated by animals(bees, ants, moths, bats, etc) are almost never the source of hay fever type allergies. These include almost every flower you can think of including the tulips seen here.

  The ones that are wind-pollinated produce the respiratory allegic reactions. These are oaks, gingko, willows, pines, cedars, most grasses (rice, corn, wheat, barley, rye, bamboo), hops, ragweed (not goldenrod as is often conflated) etc.

  The exception are moulds, but they are not pollen-producing nor even flowers at all. They produce spores. If you want to have a mind fuck look up the reproduction cycle of ferns, moulds, etc.

  source

  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean, OP’s title aside, there’s nothing in the meme itself that implies that she’s exacting revenge on the flowers for her allergies. She could just be a little psychopath who enjoys kicking flowers in the face.

    I kinda identify with that tbh.

    source

    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      My clarification does not come from a place of negativity just trying to elucidate on a very commonly held perspective.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
• darthsundhaft@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  T-shirt checks out.

  source
• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Go outside and enjoy the tree jizz up your nose!

  source
• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If I remember correctly, flowers are the reproductive parts of the plant, so it’s more like kicking them in the nuts.

  source
• Drusas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So glad the season has mostly ended here. I rarely get seasonal allergies, but this year was brutal.

  source
• Miller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I missed this episode of Little House on the Prairie.

  source