{"id":581868,"date":"2019-02-20T12:12:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T16:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0e21d76433cd8f062a22f47ad1577cfb"},"modified":"2019-02-20T12:12:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T16:12:24","slug":"city-bees-favourite-flowers-according-to-our-dna-tracking-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=581868","title":{"rendered":"City bees&#8217; favourite flowers, according to our DNA tracking experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As cities get bigger and cover more land, the need to make space for wildlife \u2013 including insects \u2013 in urban areas has become more pressing. Research has shown that cites may not be such a bad place for pollinating insects such as bumble bees, solitary bees and hoverflies. In fact, one UK study of ten cities and two large towns found a greater variety of species in urban areas than in rural areas, while another study showed some UK urban areas hosted stronger bumble bee colonies than those in rural areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cities get bigger and cover more land, the need to make space for wildlife &ndash; including insects &ndash; in urban areas has become more pressing. Research has shown that cites may not be such a bad place for pollinating insects such as bumble bees, solitary bees and hoverflies. In fact, one UK study of ten cities and two large towns found a greater variety of species in urban areas than in rural areas, while another study showed some UK urban areas hosted stronger bumble bee colonies than those in rural areas.<\/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-581868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581868","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=581868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581869,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581868\/revisions\/581869"}],"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=581868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}