{"id":502187,"date":"2025-10-15T18:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502187\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:53:12","slug":"on-guard-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/502187\/","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":502188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[164060,70,16,15,1717,164059,164058,164056,164057,164055],"class_list":{"0":"post-502187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-nature-photography","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wildlife","13":"tag-wildlife-competition","14":"tag-wildlife-images","15":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","16":"tag-wildphoto","17":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115379700314328495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}