If pine pollen is a plague that keeps you locked indoors for three weeks in spring, you can open your eyes — and your windows — again in the next three to seven days.
It’s almost over.
When will the pine pollen stop falling?
Dr. Robert Bardon, associate dean for extension and a professor at N.C. State University’s College of Natural Resources, has developed a mathematical formula to simplify the complicated courtship of the loblolly pine and its cousins that results in the ubiquitous yellow film now clinging to your porch furniture.
While other trees, grasses and weeds add to the mix of particulates, it’s pine pollen that descends like a yellow curtain across central and Eastern North Carolina in late February to early March…