{"id":20204,"date":"2016-11-25T14:33:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=20204"},"modified":"2016-11-25T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:33:20","slug":"help-save-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=20204","title":{"rendered":"Help Save the Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. \u00dana Fitzpatrick, Ecologist at the National Biodiversity Data Centre, talks to Noel McGuinness about the importance of bees as pollinators. Pollinators are essential for producing many of the fruits and vegetables we need for a healthy diet. They are also necessary for a healthy environment and landscape. Without them, the 78% of wild plants in Ireland that require insect pollination would disappear. Guidelines have been launched with practical actions that businesses can take in both indoor and outdoor spaces. These include actions that everyone can take such as installing a bee or insect hotel, planting pollinator friendly bulbs, trees, shrubs and flower beds, and reducing the use of pesticides.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7092\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-25-11-2016-004.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7092','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-25-11-2016-004.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-25-11-2016-004.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=20204-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-25-11-2016-004.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Northsidetoday-25-11-2016-004.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 10:34 &#8212; 14.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. \u00dana Fitzpatrick, Ecologist at the National Biodiversity Data Centre, talks to Noel McGuinness about the importance of bees as pollinators. Pollinators are essential for producing many of the fruits and vegetables we need for a healthy diet. They are also necessary for a healthy environment and landscape. Without them, the 78% of wild plants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7093\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-25-11-2016-004.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7093','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-25-11-2016-004.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-25-11-2016-004.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=20204-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Northsidetoday-25-11-2016-004.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Northsidetoday-25-11-2016-004.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 10:34 &#8212; 14.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[5778,2205,5779],"class_list":["post-20204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northside-today","tag-dr-una-fitzpatrick","tag-noel-mcguinness","tag-save-the-bees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20205,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204\/revisions\/20205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}