{"id":1252,"date":"2014-06-14T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddbenatar.com\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2014-06-14T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T21:32:10","slug":"bugs-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/2014\/06\/14\/bugs-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugs Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I try to handle pest control naturally, I am having a heck of a time dealing with bugs is year. The mosquitoes are particularly thick and ferocious. I cannot step off my porch after 4:00 in the afternoon without being attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes.<\/p>\n<p>Today I found a bunch of Japanese beetles all over the roses. I picked off most them but will have to check the roses every day now so they don&#8217;t get eaten up by the beetles.<\/p>\n<p>The spiders have become very prolific, too. There were spider webs in all the shrubs and I even saw one big Black Widow crawling through the grass toward a tree. I had to kill that one &#8211; they are poisonous and hard to get rid of.<\/p>\n<p>Times like these I wish we had more birds and snakes around the house to\u00a0 eat and help eliminate all these bugs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2443\" style=\"width: 341px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toddbenatar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/common-household-pests.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2443\" src=\"http:\/\/toddbenatar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/common-household-pests.jpg\" alt=\"pests all the way around\" width=\"341\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pests, Pests and More Pests<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I try to handle pest control naturally, I am having a heck of a time dealing with bugs is year. The mosquitoes are particularly thick and ferocious. I cannot step off my porch after 4:00 in the afternoon without being attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes. Today I found a bunch of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/2014\/06\/14\/bugs-everywhere\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bugs Everywhere&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,13,25,28],"tags":[127,166,227,248,270,308],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmentgreen","category-farm-life-home","category-general-living","category-tools-2","category-weather-conditions","tag-farm","tag-home","tag-pests","tag-safety","tag-spiders","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}