{"id":14716,"date":"2021-05-13T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T12:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=14716"},"modified":"2021-05-13T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T12:49:00","slug":"bee-tongues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/mornings\/2021\/05\/bee-tongues\/","title":{"rendered":"BEE TONGUES!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering on air today what a Bee Tongue would look like&#8230;after reading about how Bees in the Netherlands have been trained to detect Covid 19.<\/p>\n<p>{Dutch researchers have trained bees, which have an unusually keen sense of smell, to identify samples infected with COVID-19 \u2014 something they say could cut waiting times for test results to just seconds. To train the bees, scientists (Wageningen University) gave them sugary water as a reward after showing them samples infected with COVID-19. They would get no reward after being shown a non-infected sample. Having got used to the system, the bees were able to spontaneously extend their tongues to receive a reward when presented with an infected sample.}<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Steve for texting in this link to a Bee Tongue Video<\/p>\n<p>Oh and here is a friendly reminder to leave those Dandelion&#8217;s on your lawn for the Bees!!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kjlhTbCeALA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was wondering on air today what a Bee Tongue would look like&#8230;after reading about how Bees in the Netherlands have been trained to detect Covid 19. {Dutch researchers have trained bees, which have an unusually keen sense of smell, to identify samples infected with COVID-19 \u2014 something they say could cut waiting times for","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":14718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 01:03:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2021\/05\/bee-tongues\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14719,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14716\/revisions\/14719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}