{"id":5858,"date":"2010-10-15T09:52:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T13:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5858"},"modified":"2010-11-27T11:14:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T15:14:06","slug":"reduce-effectiveness-of-bird-mincers-by-painting-them-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/15\/reduce-effectiveness-of-bird-mincers-by-painting-them-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce effectiveness of bird mincers by painting them purple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your neighbourhood bird mincers may soon be even more of an eyesore . . . they may need to be <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_9067000\/9067721.stm?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">painted purple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A study has revealed that a wind turbine&#8217;s colour affects how many insects it attracts, shedding more light on why the turbines occasionally kill bats and birds.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say that turbines, most commonly painted white or grey, draw in insects. These then lure bats and birds &mdash; as they pursue their prey &mdash; into the path of the turbine blades.<\/p>\n<p>Support for the idea comes from another study showing that bats are most often killed by turbines at night and in summer, when insects are most abundant. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, after testing, which colour works best to deter insects? Purple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your neighbourhood bird mincers may soon be even more of an eyesore . . . they may need to be painted purple: A study has revealed that a wind turbine&#8217;s colour affects how many insects it attracts, shedding more light on why the turbines occasionally kill bats and birds. Scientists say that turbines, most commonly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,15],"tags":[640,497],"class_list":["post-5858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-technology","tag-alternativeenergy","tag-electricity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1wu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6587,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions\/6587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}