{"id":32642,"date":"2019-06-05T12:12:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=32642"},"modified":"2019-06-12T20:39:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T04:39:34","slug":"a-bucket-orchids-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/05\/a-bucket-orchids-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bucket Orchid&#8217;s Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>National Geographic Wild<\/em> has captured extraordinary footage of Bucket Orchids and bees. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coryanthes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coryanthes, or Bucket Orchids<\/a>, have evolved intricate traps, complete with scented lures and dripping faucets, to detain their pollinators. While trying to gather the flower&#8217;s fragrant oils, the bees slip into a bucket of liquid, and can only escape by squeezing past the pollen. Watch this remarkable apparatus at work in the video below &#8212;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An Orchid\u2019s Trap | Wings of Life\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_uHJGdTgtXE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic Wild has captured extraordinary footage of Bucket Orchids and bees. Coryanthes, or Bucket Orchids, have evolved intricate traps, complete with scented lures and dripping faucets, to detain their pollinators. While trying to gather the flower&#8217;s fragrant oils, the bees slip into a bucket of liquid, and can only escape by squeezing past the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,25,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fragrant-orchids","category-orchids-in-the-wild","category-videos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32642"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32658,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32642\/revisions\/32658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}