{"id":145,"date":"2011-07-10T21:58:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T02:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2011-07-10T21:58:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T02:58:18","slug":"ladybugs-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/10\/ladybugs-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladybugs to the Rescue?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have an infestation of sticky gooey tiny bugs that I think are aphids. \u00a0Due to my laziness and\u00a0aversion to working in the\u00a0oppressive\u00a0heat of north Texas summers, I’ve let things get out of hand in my backyard vegetable garden. \u00a0I was cleaning up today and was happy to see an army of ladybugs<\/a> eating their way though the bad guys. \u00a0Now I’m wondering if I should hold off on spraying just to see how\u00a0effective these armor-plated aphid eaters are. \u00a0(I just recently learned that the larva stage of the ladybug are the ones that eat all the bad bugs, not the pretty round flying beetles we usually think of)<\/p>\n

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I have an infestation of sticky gooey tiny bugs that I think are aphids. \u00a0Due to my laziness and\u00a0aversion to working in the\u00a0oppressive\u00a0heat of north Texas summers, I’ve let things get out of hand in my backyard vegetable garden. \u00a0I was cleaning up today and was happy to see an army of ladybugs eating their […]<\/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":[37],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-ladybug"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jPFc-2l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","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=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}