{"id":505894,"date":"2025-10-17T04:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/505894\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T04:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:16:10","slug":"jelly-smack-summer-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/505894\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelly Smack Summer | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Pace&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Pace (USA) finds himself in the middle of a mass or \u2018smack\u2019 of Pacific sea nettles.<\/p>\n<p>To try to protect himself from stings while taking this photograph, Ralph smeared petroleum jelly on any skin not covered by his wetsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The trailing tentacles can deliver a painful sting. Ralph says this feels more like that of a bee than a nettle.<\/p>\n<p>Jellyfish are appearing in larger numbers because they\u2019re highly adaptable to warming seas.<\/p>\n<p>Some biologists think that more frequent smacks are a sign of rising ocean temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Overfishing is another factor because it removes predators and competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ralph Pace&#8217;s Image Ralph Pace (USA) finds himself in the middle of a mass or \u2018smack\u2019 of Pacific&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505895,"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-505894","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\/115387576043184746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505894","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=505894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}