{"id":31072,"date":"2019-09-04T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cupblog.bluefusesystems.com\/?p=31072"},"modified":"2019-09-02T11:45:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T10:45:02","slug":"watch-how-do-bees-carry-pollen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/2019\/09\/04\/watch-how-do-bees-carry-pollen\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: How do bees carry pollen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>Pollen is the main source of protein in a honey bees diet and so it&#8217;s essential that they are able to carry enough of it safely back to the hive. Marguerite Matherne at the Georgia Institute of Technology studies how they use nectar to create a viscous suspension that sticks the pollen to their hind legs and ensures that it doesn&#8217;t fall off during flight.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8nNLBo2VO34\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This video is part of a collaboration between FYFD and the Journal of Fluid Mechanics featuring a series of interviews with researchers from the APS DFD 2017 conference.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by FYFD, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and the UK Fluids Network. Produced by Tom Crawford and Nicole Sharp with assistance from A.J. Fillo.<\/p>\n<p>For more maths related fun check out <a href=\"https:\/\/tomrocksmaths.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pollen is the main source of protein in a honey bees diet and so it&#8217;s essential that they are able to carry enough of it safely back to the hive. Marguerite Matherne at the Georgia Institute of Technology studies how they use nectar to create a viscous suspension that sticks the pollen to their hind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":800,"featured_media":31073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2253],"tags":[4016,6411,1137,347,6413,4018,346,349,6412,6415,4129,6414],"coauthors":[4015],"class_list":["post-31072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mathematics","tag-aps-dfd","tag-bees","tag-fluid-dynamics","tag-fluid-mechanics","tag-fluid-properties","tag-fyfd","tag-jfm","tag-journal-of-fluid-mechanics","tag-pollen","tag-suspension","tag-uk-fluids-network","tag-viscosity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31072"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}