{"id":358,"date":"2011-08-08T17:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T00:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2011-08-09T08:52:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:52:52","slug":"crop-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Crop Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mohamed Babu from Mysore, India <a href=\"http:\/\/thisiscolossal.com\/2011\/08\/translucent-ants-photographed-eating-colored-liquids\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+colossal+%28Colossal%29\">fed ants food-dye filled sugar water<\/a>, photographing these lovely patterns of ants filling their crops (also known as &#8220;social stomachs&#8221;) with the bright colors, and making different color combinations when they change droplets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"ants\" src=\"http:\/\/thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ants-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"ants\" src=\"http:\/\/thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ants-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful stuff, more info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2022765\/The-ants-multi-coloured-abdomens-exactly-theyve-eating.html#ixzz1U9mFq1wR\">here <\/a>from a (rather strangely-written) Daily Mail article.\u00a0Doesn&#8217;t this make you wish <em>you<\/em> had a translucent social stomach? <a href=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/insectgod_Vtiny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-359 alignnone\" title=\"insectgod_Vtiny\" src=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/insectgod_Vtiny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mohamed Babu from Mysore, India fed ants food-dye filled sugar water, photographing these lovely patterns of ants filling their crops (also known as &#8220;social stomachs&#8221;) with the bright colors, and making different color combinations when they change droplets. Beautiful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[34,213,214],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-ant","tag-mohamed-babu","tag-nifercritter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}