{"id":12774,"date":"2017-10-27T07:55:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12774"},"modified":"2017-10-27T07:55:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:55:47","slug":"how-a-longer-flowering-season-could-be-bad-for-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/10\/how-a-longer-flowering-season-could-be-bad-for-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Longer Flowering Season Could Be Bad for Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Modern Farmer<\/em> posted an interesting story earlier this month about some work that some North Carolina scientists are doing on how changes in the length of the growing season may affect bees.\u00a0 Of course we are all interested in the health of bees because of their important role as pollinators. You might think that a longer growing season would be good because it would give the bees a longer time to gather nectar for their hives. But the study showed that while the growing season was longer, the total number of flowers did not necessarily increase, so that the total food supply did not change.\u00a0 You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2017\/10\/strange-climate-change-news-longer-flowering-season-bad-bees\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2498\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2498\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/320px-Bees_Collecting_Pollen_2004-08-14.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jon Sullivan, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern Farmer posted an interesting story earlier this month about some work that some North Carolina scientists are doing on how changes in the length of the growing season may affect bees.\u00a0 Of course we are all interested in the health of bees because of their important role as pollinators. You might think that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12914,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12774\/revisions\/12914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}