{"id":216798,"date":"2025-10-16T03:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/216798\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:18:06","slug":"on-guard-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/216798\/","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":216799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,34930,128,338,131366,131365,72090,131364,131363],"class_list":["post-216798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nature-photography","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}