{"id":124202,"date":"2025-10-15T18:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124202\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:35:06","slug":"on-guard-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/124202\/","title":{"rendered":"On Guard | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rithved Girishkumar&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Rithved Girishkumar (India\/United Arab Emirates) notices a band of stingless bees standing guard at the tube-like entrance to their nest, in southwest India.<\/p>\n<p>Careful not to disturb the bees, Rithved crouched down, braving ants and thorny shrubs, to photograph them head-on.<\/p>\n<p>The bees\u2019 nest was built from wax, resin and mud. It was hidden within an old wall, but Rithved spotted the comings and goings of a few foragers.<\/p>\n<p>Stingless bees are important pollinators.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change could change the timing of pollen production so it no longer aligns with insect activity.<\/p>\n<p>This may then affect pollination and the production of foods such as honey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rithved Girishkumar&#8217;s Image Rithved Girishkumar (India\/United Arab Emirates) notices a band of stingless bees standing guard at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,29690,133,461,74888,74887,22708,74886,74885],"class_list":{"0":"post-124202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-nature-photography","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife","14":"tag-wildlife-competition","15":"tag-wildlife-images","16":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","17":"tag-wildphoto","18":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}