{"id":77751,"date":"2022-04-20T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T18:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=77751"},"modified":"2022-04-20T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:15:10","slug":"brock-bee-experts-creating-buzz-on-new-childrens-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/04\/brock-bee-experts-creating-buzz-on-new-childrens-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock bee experts creating buzz on new children\u2019s TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Earth Day, children can tune in to TVO to learn all about bees from Brock researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Biological Sciences Professor Miriam Richards and graduate student Lyllian Corbin will share their bee expertise during a segment on the new TVO series, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthground.com\/leos-pollinators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leo\u2019s Pollinators<\/a><\/em><em>,<\/em> which premieres April 22 at a special time of 4:45 p.m. After the debut episode, The Big Carpenter Party, the show will move to its regular time slot: Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Miriam says her segment will focus on the \u201cinteresting and often amusing behaviour\u201d of male carpenter bees competing for mates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first warm days of spring, males pop out of their nests and immediately start guarding the airspace around nest entrances, hoping to find receptive females as they fly in or out of their nest entrances,\u201d she says. \u201cThe males chase and grapple with each other, and sometimes there are so many males whirling around, that it does look like a Big Carpenter Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through the eyes of Leo the Catfish, <em>Leo\u2019s Pollinators<\/em> teaches children about insects and animals that spread pollen. Pollination is vital for plants to produce seeds, fruit and future plants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are all sorts of unexpected and exciting pollinator species, including bats, beetles, hummingbirds, honey possums and even lemurs,\u201d says the show\u2019s website. \u201cOur planet needs every pollinator to survive and thrive, and our hosts are on a quest to defend them all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Richards, appearing on a children\u2019s show was a \u201creally fun opportunity\u201d to do a different kind of community outreach focusing on young learners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPollinators are a crucial component of our natural, urban and agricultural ecosystems, and it is important for people to understand why,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think our carpenter bee episode adds something else \u2013 it\u2019s about learning and appreciating how amazing and fun tiny, wild creatures can be. There\u2019s a lot of joy to be experienced by simply observing, appreciating and preserving the little creatures around us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthground.com\/leos-pollinators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leo\u2019s Pollinators<\/a><\/em> is produced by Fifth Ground Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Earth Day, children can tune in to TVO to learn all about bees from Brock researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":77752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9794,7,188,55,41,1,4],"tags":[11482,2149,703,8907,7082,11481,485,5961,7872,3325,6955],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77751"}],"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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77755,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77751\/revisions\/77755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}