{"id":218883,"date":"2025-10-17T03:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218883\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:56:08","slug":"jelly-smack-summer-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218883\/","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":218884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,76784,66,323,103774,103773,59959,103772,103771],"class_list":["post-218883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","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\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}