{"id":1135,"date":"2010-06-21T22:55:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T06:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2010-06-21T22:57:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T06:57:34","slug":"id-used-to-save-waggle-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"ID used to save &#8220;waggle dance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/06\/bee_ids.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>MSN <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.uk.msn.com\/news\/headlines\/article.aspx?cp-documentid=153864114\" class=\"broken_link\">reports <\/a>on a fascinating use of tracking:<\/p>\n<p style=\"PADDING-LEFT: 30px\">Bees are being fitted with tiny radio ID tags to monitor their movements as part of research into whether pesticides could be giving the insects brain disorders, scientists have revealed<\/p>\n<p style=\"PADDING-LEFT: 30px\">The study is examining concerns that pesticides could be damaging bees&#8217; abilities to gather food, navigate and even perform their famous &#8220;waggle dance&#8221; through which they tell other bees where nectar can be found.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#39;t help wondering\u00a0if\u00a0wearing an antenna twice one&#39;s size might also throw off\u00a0one&#39;s &#8220;waggle dance&#8221;? There is\u00a0too the question of how this\u00a0particular bee gets back into its hive to be tracked another day.\u00a0 But I leave those questions to the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny RFID tags used to track movements of bees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}