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Nature Tech: Pollen is a Pest for Real-World 'CSI'

An AP newswire article by Errin Haines, via USA Today, reports that:

All the pollen-covered cars in the South may be an eyesore to drivers, but the yellow dust might be a bandit's best friend. Pollen can make it difficult for crime scene investigators to lift fingerprints from outdoor surfaces, since the dust absorbs the moisture people normally leave behind.

In the spring when the pollen is at its worst in the region, police sometimes have to get creative to coax evidence from underneath the sticky covering left by oaks, elms, maples and especially pines — the most popular tree in Georgia.

posted by Fergie @ 4/04/2007 07:00:00 PM