{"id":10912,"date":"2020-07-19T16:28:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T04:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/?post_type=phort_post&#038;p=10912"},"modified":"2020-07-23T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T09:36:08","slug":"bees","status":"publish","type":"phort_post","link":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/portfolio\/bees\/","title":{"rendered":"BEES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">&#8216;Bumblebees are members of the same family of bees as&nbsp;honeybees, the&nbsp;<strong>Apidae<\/strong>, and neither&nbsp;honeybees&nbsp;nor bumblebees are native to New Zealand. Bumblebee species were introduced from the United Kingdom for the pollination of red clover at the turn of the 20th century, with four species becoming established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Many of the bees in New Zealand are introduced&nbsp;honeybees and bumblebees, brought here to pollinate crops. But among the 41&nbsp;species&nbsp;found here, there are 28 little-known native bees. These bees, which range in size from 4-12 millimetres long, belong to three different genera:&nbsp;Leioproctus, Hylaeus and Lasioglossum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Bumblebees are members of the same family of bees as&nbsp;honeybees, the&nbsp;Apidae, and neither&nbsp;honeybees&nbsp;nor bumblebees are native to New Zealand. Bumblebee species were introduced from the United Kingdom for the pollination of red clover at the turn of the 20th century, with four species becoming established. Many of the bees in New Zealand are introduced&nbsp;honeybees and bumblebees, brought here to pollinate crops. But among the 41&nbsp;species&nbsp;found here, there are 28 little-known native bees. These bees, which range in size from 4-12 millimetres long, belong to three different genera:&nbsp;Leioproctus, Hylaeus and Lasioglossum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10840,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-10912","phort_post","type-phort_post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","phort_post_category-bees","phort_post_category-bees-butterflies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/phort_post\/10912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/phort_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/phort_post"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydnature.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}