{"id":82,"date":"2009-05-29T07:34:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T14:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=82"},"modified":"2009-05-29T07:34:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T14:34:56","slug":"earwig-caught-red-handed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Earwig Caught Red-Handed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earwig\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Common Earwig\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/34\/Earwig_on_white_background.jpg\/240px-Earwig_on_white_background.jpg\" title=\"Common Earwig\" width=\"240\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Common Earwig<\/p><\/div>Slowly, over the last several days, our swiss chard seedlings have died.\u00c2\u00a0 In each case it appeared as though the stem had rotted or snapped just below the leaf.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I went to look at the potting tray about 1am.\u00c2\u00a0 I found a small <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earwig\">earwig<\/a> nibbling the last remaining swiss chard just below the leaf.  The earwig ran off and today that seedling looks like the others.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia, earwigs look for dampness during dry weather, and their diet includes tender shoots and seedlings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly, over the last several days, our swiss chard seedlings have died.\u00c2\u00a0 In each case it appeared as though the stem had rotted or snapped just below the leaf. Last night, I went to look at the potting tray about 1am.\u00c2\u00a0 I found a small earwig nibbling the last remaining swiss chard just below the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-2009-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}