{"id":2919,"date":"2013-09-05T16:27:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2013-09-05T16:28:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:28:32","slug":"a-passion-for-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/a-passion-for-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"A Passion for Bees?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bwpawards.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Wildlife Photography Awards<\/a> were announced this week, and one of the Highly Commended award winners in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bwpawards.org\/galleries\/wildlife-in-hd-video\" target=\"_blank\">Wildlife in HD Video<\/a>\u00a0is pretty great.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it can&#8217;t be embedded, so go watch <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/72966954\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A Passion for Bees&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Tim Balmer and come back. I&#8217;ll wait.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OK, watched it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notice anything peculiar about the last half of the video? Namely that the &#8220;bee&#8221; cleaning itself is actually a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eristalis_tenax\" target=\"_blank\">Drone Fly, <em>Eristalis tenax<\/em><\/a> (Syrphidae)? Awesome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/a-passion-for-bees\/facepalmfly\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2921\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2921\" alt=\"FacePalmFly\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/FacePalmFly.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/FacePalmFly.jpg 332w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/FacePalmFly-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether the film would have scored as well had it been titled &#8220;A Passion for Flies&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>H\/T to Rob Wallace (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Dioctria\" target=\"_blank\">@Dioctria<\/a>) for sharing the video on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Wildlife Photography Awards were announced this week, and one of the Highly Commended award winners in the Wildlife in HD Video\u00a0is pretty great. Apparently it can&#8217;t be embedded, so go watch &#8220;A Passion for Bees&#8221;\u00a0by Tim Balmer and come back. I&#8217;ll wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,23],"tags":[36,598,35,39,597,498],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-insects","tag-apidae","tag-diptera","tag-hymenoptera","tag-syrphidae","tag-taxonomy","tag-taxonomy-fail","category-29-id","category-23-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}