{"id":205176,"date":"2025-02-01T20:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T02:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/hummingbird-flower-mites-use-static-electricity-to-travel"},"modified":"2025-02-01T20:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T02:21:14","slug":"hummingbird-flower-mites-use-static-electricity-to-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/hummingbird-flower-mites-use-static-electricity-to-travel","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbird flower mites use static electricity to travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hummingbird-flower-mites-use-static-electricity-to-travel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hummingbird flower mites are tiny hitchhikers with an electrifying secret. These minuscule arachnids have developed a remarkable survival strategy.<\/p>\n<p>A new study reveals that the mites use static electricity generated by their hummingbird chauffeurs to leap from one flower to another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hummingbird flower mites are tiny hitchhikers with an electrifying secret. These minuscule arachnids have developed a remarkable survival strategy. A new study reveals that the mites use static electricity generated by their hummingbird chauffeurs to leap from one flower to another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205176","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=205176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}