{"id":1625,"date":"2025-06-16T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:23:00","slug":"mechanical-ecology-lab-at-the-royal-society-summer-science-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical Ecology Lab at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re delighted to have been invited to stage an exhibit at the <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\/science-events-and-lectures\/summer-science-exhibition\/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22608926149&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwgb_CBhBMEiwA0p3oOAItQE4CCdDZBTwxt2XAaPmA1VOQP7BdF648eIUYXffHJD89nFhvhBoCkpYQAvD_BwE\">Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition<\/a> again this year. We&#8217;ll be there on Saturday 5th July for the whole day. If you&#8217;re in London, come and pop by! Step into the feet of an ant and experience how insect-eating pitcher plants outsmart their prey. Explore how specialised surfaces, viscoelastic secretions and rain-powered springboards help these extraordinary plants to secure a meal. Admire the beauty of pitcher plants and their elaborate micropatterned trapping surfaces.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-105\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG-20190702-WA0004-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG-20190702-WA0004-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG-20190702-WA0004-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG-20190702-WA0004-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG-20190702-WA0004-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG-20190702-WA0004.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lab out in force at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re delighted to have been invited to stage an exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition again this year.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/?p=1625\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mechanical Ecology Lab at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mechanicalecology.exeter.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}