{"id":227156,"date":"2023-02-18T19:20:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T13:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=227156"},"modified":"2023-02-18T19:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T13:50:03","slug":"researchers-discover-new-cuckoo-bee-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/researchers-discover-new-cuckoo-bee-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover new cuckoo bee in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cResearchers discover new cuckoo bee in Kerala<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published i<\/span><b>n The Hindu on 18th February 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers have discovered a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new species of cuckoo bee named \u201cThyreus narendrani\u201d in kole Wetland, Kerala.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Thyreus narendrani?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thyreus narendrani is a new species of cuckoo bee. It belongs to the family Apidae of order Hymenoptera.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuckoo bees parasitise the nest of other bees by breaking and entering and laying their eggs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike other female bees, cuckoo bees lack pollen-collecting structures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the cuckoo bee\u2019s larva hatches out in the nest of the host bee, it consumes the food stored by the host for its own growing larva.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Kole Wetland?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kole Wetland is located in Kerala. It is one of the largest brackish, humid tropical wetland ecosystem on the southwest coast of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was declared as a Ramsar Site in 2002. It is situated in the central Asian Flyway of migratory birds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wetland extends from the northern bank of Chalakudy River in the south to the southern bank of Bharathapuzha River in the north.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wetland is popular for its rice cultivation that dates back to 300 years. The wetland gets its name from its high productivity \u2013 \u2018Kole\u2019 literally translates to \u2018bumper crop\u2019 in Malayalam.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cResearchers discover new cuckoo bee in Kerala\u201d published in The Hindu on 18th February 2023 What is the News? Researchers have discovered a new species of cuckoo bee named \u201cThyreus narendrani\u201d in kole Wetland, Kerala.\u00a0 What is Thyreus narendrani? Thyreus narendrani is a new species of cuckoo&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/researchers-discover-new-cuckoo-bee-in-kerala\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Researchers discover new cuckoo bee in Kerala<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-227156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}