{"id":12130,"date":"2012-07-29T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T11:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2012-07-29T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T11:02:08","slug":"termite-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12130","title":{"rendered":"Termite Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2012\/07\/old-termites-blow-themselves-up-.html\">Old Termites Blow Themselves Up to Protect the Nest<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When trekking through a forest in French Guiana to study termites, a group of biologists noticed unique spots of blue on the backs of the insects in one nest. Curious, one scientist reached down to pick up one of these termites with a pair of forceps. It exploded. The blue spots, the team discovered, contain explosive crystals, and they&#8217;re found only on the backs of the oldest termites in the colony. The aged termites carry out suicide missions on behalf of their nest mates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Termites Blow Themselves Up to Protect the Nest When trekking through a forest in French Guiana to study termites, a group of biologists noticed unique spots of blue on the backs of the insects in one nest. Curious, one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}