{"id":116990,"date":"2020-12-11T22:26:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T06:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/australians-in-awe-of-native-blue-banded-bees-found-across-the-country"},"modified":"2020-12-11T22:26:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T06:26:53","slug":"australians-in-awe-of-native-blue-banded-bees-found-across-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/australians-in-awe-of-native-blue-banded-bees-found-across-the-country","title":{"rendered":"Australians in awe of native blue-banded bees found across the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australians-in-awe-of-native-blue-banded-bees-found-across-the-country.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australians are in awe of a native bee covered in deep blue stripes after learning the unusual insect can be found across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The blue-banded bee can be spotted in gardens in each state except for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/tasmania\/index.html\" id=\"mol-c387be80-3b39-11eb-8311-33724004D64c\">Tasmania<\/a> and can be recognised by the coloured stripes around their abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>While the bees have stingers they are not known to be aggressive and are attracted to native plants including tomato flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australians are in awe of a native bee covered in deep blue stripes after learning the unusual insect can be found across the country. The blue-banded bee can be spotted in gardens in each state except for Tasmania and can be recognised by the coloured stripes around their abdomen. While the bees have stingers they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}