{"id":2979,"date":"2024-05-04T15:34:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T15:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/incredible-close-up-photos-of-bees-go-on-display-in-liverpool\/"},"modified":"2024-05-04T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T15:34:06","slug":"incredible-close-up-photos-of-bees-go-on-display-in-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/incredible-close-up-photos-of-bees-go-on-display-in-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible close-up photos of bees go on display in Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>These are bees as you&#8217;ve never seen them before. <\/p>\n<p>There are more than 20,000 known species of bee and they are vital to life on Earth, as they <strong>help keep plants thriving<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-outbrain\" data-target=\"\" data-widget-mapping=\"\" data-installation-keys=\"\">    <\/div>\n<p>A new immersive exhibition in Liverpool explores their lives, and the threats they now face.<\/p>\n<p>A collaboration between artist Wolfgang Buttress and World Museum, Liverpool, it uses close-up photography, sound, sculpture and light to show the impact the modern world is having on bees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bees can be seen as sentinels of the earth,&#8221; said Buttress.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Their health and wellbeing mirror the health of the Earth and they are dying in unprecedented numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their existential challenges reflect our own &#8211; they die and suffer, we die and suffer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bees are threatened by a number of factors including the use of pesticides, their loss of habitat, and intensive farming, according to Friends of the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to shine a light on the plight of bees and the devastating impact a world without bees would have on humanity,&#8221; said the head of World Museum, Anne Fahy.<\/p>\n<p>Bees: A Story of Survival opens at World Museum, part of National Museums Liverpool, on Saturday 4 May 2024, and runs until Saturday 5 May 2025.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are bees as you&#8217;ve never seen them before. There are more than 20,000 known&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}