{"id":955,"date":"2015-05-25T18:01:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T23:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=955"},"modified":"2016-03-05T18:32:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T00:32:25","slug":"10-reasons-insects-would-eat-bear-grylls-for-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"10 Reasons Insects Would Eat Bear Grylls for Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Artists conception of Bear Grylls wetting himself (we assume) at the thought of facing some of these insects. Drawing by Klapi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I don’t know about you, but I could spend all day watching nature documentaries. Nature is endlessly fascinating, adaptive and, occasionally, just plain scary.<\/p>\n

Take the insect world, for example. You can wax lyrical about butterfly wings all you like, but when it’s time to throw down — or just plain survive — you do not want to mess with an insect. They will end<\/em> you, and I’ve 10 good reasons why:<\/p>\n

10 Traits That Make Insects Survivors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but I could spend all day watching nature documentaries. Nature is endlessly fascinating, adaptive and, occasionally, just plain scary. Take the insect world, for example. You can wax lyrical about butterfly wings all you like, but when it’s time to throw down — or just plain survive — you do … Continue reading 10 Reasons Insects Would Eat Bear Grylls for Lunch<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,84,3],"tags":[1099,24,1101,17,1098,1104,1097,23,1102,1100,25,1096,1103],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-genetics","category-science","tag-arthropod","tag-behavior","tag-coevolution","tag-environment","tag-eusocial","tag-exoskeleton","tag-genetic-drift","tag-insects","tag-metamorphosis","tag-mutualism","tag-nature","tag-phenotypic-plasticity","tag-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}