{"id":139,"date":"2011-07-10T21:26:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T02:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2011-07-10T21:50:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T02:50:28","slug":"devastation-of-squash-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/10\/devastation-of-squash-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Squash Bug Devastation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did a little experiment. \u00a0I noticed a bunch of squash bugs<\/a> on my\u00a0zucchini\u00a0plant earlier this week. \u00a0I decided to NOT do anything about it, just to see if a natural\u00a0predator\u00a0would come along and clean up the mess for me. \u00a0Turns out these critters are\u00a0lethal! \u00a0In a few short days my healthy cucubrit<\/a> was dead. \u00a0Lesson learned! \u00a0Next time I’ll know to act quickly to save the plant.<\/p>\n

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Here is what remains of the\u00a0zucchini\u00a0plant:<\/p>\n

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I did a little experiment. \u00a0I noticed a bunch of squash bugs on my\u00a0zucchini\u00a0plant earlier this week. \u00a0I decided to NOT do anything about it, just to see if a natural\u00a0predator\u00a0would come along and clean up the mess for me. \u00a0Turns out these critters are\u00a0lethal! \u00a0In a few short days my healthy cucubrit was dead. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-squash-bug"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jPFc-2f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}