{"id":25859,"date":"2013-12-24T11:40:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T16:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=25859"},"modified":"2013-12-24T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T16:40:55","slug":"brock-scientist-on-quirks-and-quarks-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/12\/brock-scientist-on-quirks-and-quarks-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock scientist on Quirks and Quarks Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been curious about what male mosquitos eat, Brock researcher Fiona Hunter is happy to help answer that question.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter, who studies insect-borne illness, particularly West Nile virus, will take to the airwaves on CBC radio this Saturday to provide the scoop on the male mosquito&#8217;s diet.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s one of 10 Canadian scientists featured on Quirks and Quarks question show, which solicits questions from readers and finds an expert with the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter will answer the question \u2018If only female mosquitos eat blood, then what do male mosquitos eat?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The show airs Dec. 28, just after the noon news on CBC Radio One (99.1 FM in Niagara). Those who can&#8217;t tune in <a title=\"Quirks and Quarks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/quirks\" target=\"_blank\">can catch the show online<\/a> after it airs or subscribe to the Quirks and Quarks podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been curious about what male mosquitos eat, Brock researcher Fiona Hunter is happy to help answer that question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[49,1356,3328,1520,321],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25861,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25859\/revisions\/25861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}