{"id":7714,"date":"2018-03-23T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/?p=7714"},"modified":"2018-09-17T13:13:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T12:13:56","slug":"buzz-around-bee-decline-super-robotic-bees-future-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/innovation\/buzz-around-bee-decline-super-robotic-bees-future-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buzz Around Bee Decline: Are Super Robotic Bees the Future of Farming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 70% of crops need pollination; however the number of insect pollinators has fallen dramatically over the past 50 years, a problem that threatens the future of the food industry. <a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.factor-tech.com\/factor_spring_2018\/the_buzz_around_bee_decline_are_super_robotic_bees_the_future_of_farming\">In the latest issue of Factor<\/a>, Eloise McLennan explores what is causing the decline, and whether robotic bees could provide a solution.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 70% of crops need pollination; however the number of insect pollinators has fallen dramatically over the past 50 years, a problem that threatens the future of the food industry. In the latest issue of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-7714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9126,"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions\/9126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nridigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}