{"id":89052,"date":"2019-03-30T03:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T10:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/ehf-fellow-veronica-harwood-stevenson"},"modified":"2019-03-30T03:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T10:42:40","slug":"ehf-fellow-veronica-harwood-stevenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/ehf-fellow-veronica-harwood-stevenson","title":{"rendered":"EHF Fellow: Veronica Harwood-Stevenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ehf-fellow-veronica-harwood-stevenson.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another possibility for an alternative to traditional plastics?<\/p>\n<p>A substance made by solitary bees.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Sometimes the answers to life\u2019s most complicated questions are hidden in the smallest details. That\u2019s a truth Veronica Harwood-Stevenson discovered when she found there might be a way to create a sustainable alternative to plastic products by mimicking a natural substance produced by bees.<\/p>\n<p>You have probably encountered your fair share of honey bees and bumble bees in your life, but fewer people know about solitary bees \u2014 a name for the <a href=\"https:\/\/animalcorner.co.uk\/animals\/solitary-bees\/\" data-href=\"https:\/\/animalcorner.co.uk\/animals\/solitary-bees\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">20,000+ species of bees<\/a> that live on their own apart from a hive or colony.<\/p>\n<p>These bees do not produce honey or wax, but they do make a material to waterproof their nests and protect their larvae from the environment that has shown resistance to heat, naked flames, acids, bases, and solvents.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/stories.ehf.org\/ehf-fellow-veronica-harwood-stevenson-ba67f3768156\">https:\/\/stories.ehf.org\/ehf-fellow-veronica-harwood-stevenson-ba67f3768156<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another possibility for an alternative to traditional plastics? A substance made by solitary bees. Sometimes the answers to life\u2019s most complicated questions are hidden in the smallest details. That\u2019s a truth Veronica Harwood-Stevenson discovered when she found there might be a way to create a sustainable alternative to plastic products by mimicking a natural substance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89052","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\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}