{"id":198994,"date":"2024-11-09T05:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/symmetry-in-biology-a-look-into-how-bees-actively-organize-nests-in-mirroring-patterns"},"modified":"2024-11-09T05:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:02:31","slug":"symmetry-in-biology-a-look-into-how-bees-actively-organize-nests-in-mirroring-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/symmetry-in-biology-a-look-into-how-bees-actively-organize-nests-in-mirroring-patterns","title":{"rendered":"Symmetry in biology: A look into how bees actively organize nests in mirroring patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/symmetry-in-biology-a-look-into-how-bees-actively-organize-nests-in-mirroring-patterns3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies\u2014and those of many multicellular organisms\u2014symmetrical, bee colonies build symmetrical nests when they are placed on either side of a double-sided comb. The finding, published in <i>Current Biology<\/i>, extends examples of symmetry in biology to the behavior of communities and the architectural structures that they build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies\u2014and those of many multicellular organisms\u2014symmetrical, bee colonies build symmetrical nests when they are placed on either side of a double-sided comb. The finding, published in Current Biology, extends examples of symmetry in biology to the behavior of communities and the architectural structures that they build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198994","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}