{"id":436399,"date":"2018-02-06T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2de9bc6a2e3a30f2d3781e43c5a8c197"},"modified":"2018-02-06T11:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:30:03","slug":"venus-flytraps-dont-eat-the-insects-that-pollinate-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=436399","title":{"rendered":"Venus flytraps don&#8217;t eat the insects that pollinate them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While most people are familiar with Venus flytraps and their snapping jaws, there is still a lot that scientists don&#8217;t know about the biology of these carnivorous plants. Researchers have for the first time discovered which insects pollinate the rare plants in their native habitat \u2013 and discovered that the flytraps don&#8217;t dine on these pollinator species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most people are familiar with Venus flytraps and their snapping jaws, there is still a lot that scientists don&#8217;t know about the biology of these carnivorous plants. Researchers have for the first time discovered which insects pollinate the rare plants in their native habitat &ndash; and discovered that the flytraps don&#8217;t dine on these pollinator species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436400,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436399\/revisions\/436400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}