{"id":32897,"date":"2019-07-21T12:50:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T20:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=32897"},"modified":"2019-07-26T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T18:47:45","slug":"chasing-ghost-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/21\/chasing-ghost-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Ghost Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/2019\/07\/ghost-orchids-florida-surprising-pollinators-moths\/?fbclid=IwAR0fDVjv1mPPSEYty568YA3Y54DdJeQgWbuYJ0oPpxMEj9rfLaOqYP49WOA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>National Geographic<\/em> reports on important discoveries about Florida&#8217;s famous Ghost Orchids.<\/a> Scientists and photographers have found that they aren&#8217;t just pollinated by one species of moth, but by several different species. That&#8217;s good for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/ghost-orchid-in-an-ice-rink\/\">the strange and fascinating leafless orchids<\/a>, which are very endangered. After spending thousands of hours taking photos at the <a href=\"https:\/\/corkscrew.audubon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary<\/a>, they observed that Ghost Orchids use at least five moth varieties for pollination. That means they&#8217;re not as vulnerable if some of the moths go extinct. There has been progress in conserving Ghost Orchids. Lab-grown plants are helping to replenish wild populations, and anti-poaching measures have had success. Check out amazing Ghost Orchids in the video below &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chasing Ghosts | bioGraphic\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Ob80Cfo9T8?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 reports on important discoveries about Florida&#8217;s famous Ghost Orchids. Scientists and photographers have found that they aren&#8217;t just pollinated by one species of moth, but by several different species. That&#8217;s good for the strange and fascinating leafless orchids, which are very endangered. After spending thousands of hours taking photos at the Corkscrew Swamp [&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":[12,22,25,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fragrant-orchids","category-in-the-news","category-videos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32897","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=32897"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32961,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32897\/revisions\/32961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}