{"id":179553,"date":"2023-12-31T00:25:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T06:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/wildflowers-adapting-to-insect-apocalypse-by-pollinating-themselves-scientists-say"},"modified":"2023-12-31T00:25:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T06:25:39","slug":"wildflowers-adapting-to-insect-apocalypse-by-pollinating-themselves-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/wildflowers-adapting-to-insect-apocalypse-by-pollinating-themselves-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"Wildflowers Adapting to Insect Apocalypse by Pollinating Themselves, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wildflowers-adapting-to-insect-apocalypse-by-pollinating-themselves-scientists-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This may sound great at first glance, but researchers say it could signal the start of a \u201cvicious cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The world is undergoing an insect apocalypse, with our buggy friends experiencing global mass population <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/graphics\/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT\/INSECT-APOCALYPSE\/egpbykdxjvq\/\" class=\"\">decreases at an estimated 2 percent yearly<\/a> due to a woeful combination of climate change, pesticides, habitat loss, and other human-made ills.<\/p>\n<p>How are flora \u2014 which often rely on insects for pollination \u2014 adapting to this massive change within the worldwide food chain? Researchers in France have now revealed one way: turning to self-pollination.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/nph.19422\" class=\"\">new study published in the journal<\/a> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/nph.19422\" class=\"\">New Phytologist<\/a>, <\/em>researchers have found that wildflowers in a patch of farm meadow in the Paris region have increasingly adapted to self-fertilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may sound great at first glance, but researchers say it could signal the start of a \u201cvicious cycle.\u201d The world is undergoing an insect apocalypse, with our buggy friends experiencing global mass population decreases at an estimated 2 percent yearly due to a woeful combination of climate change, pesticides, habitat loss, and other human-made [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-habitats","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179553","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}