{"id":109987,"date":"2017-08-06T21:49:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T01:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=109987"},"modified":"2017-08-06T21:49:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T01:49:26","slug":"rare-ants-discovered-in-south-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/06\/rare-ants-discovered-in-south-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare ants discovered in south China"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109994\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109994\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/637px-Opamyrma_hungvuong_casent0178347_profile_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109994\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/637px-Opamyrma_hungvuong_casent0178347_profile_1-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Profile view of ant Opamyrma hungvuong specimen casent0178347 (Photo By The photographer and www.AntWeb.org, CC BY 4.0)\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/637px-Opamyrma_hungvuong_casent0178347_profile_1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/637px-Opamyrma_hungvuong_casent0178347_profile_1.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=8146865\">Profile view of ant Opamyrma hungvuong specimen casent0178347 (Photo By The photographer and www.AntWeb.org, CC BY 4.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NANNING, Aug. 6 &#8212; A rare ant species has been discovered in south China&#8217;s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local authorities said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Opamyrma hungvuong, an ancient ant species, was spotted for the first time in Guangxi by experts on an ant survey at a national reserve near Guangxi&#8217;s tourist city of Guilin.<\/p>\n<p>A staff with Huaping National Nature Reserve said that the ants live under some small bush-covered rocks in a primary forest with moderate humidity. About 30 ants were collected for research.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of Opamyrma hungvuong will provide new evidence for the evolution and distribution of ants, according to staff with the nature reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Opamyrma hungvuong mainly feeds on tiny Arthropoda species. The ant only lives in well-preserved primary forests with little human activity and is a good indicator of the environmental quality.<\/p>\n<p>The Huaping National Nature Reserve was among the first nature reserves established in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NANNING, Aug. 6 &#8212; A rare ant species has been discovered in south China&#8217;s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local authorities &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20489],"class_list":["post-109987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ants","mauthors-xinhua","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}