{"id":516,"date":"2012-07-13T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T14:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2012-07-14T21:17:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T02:17:50","slug":"grasshoppers-stress-level-effects-soil-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/13\/grasshoppers-stress-level-effects-soil-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasshoppers Stress Level Affects Soil Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirtdoctor.com\/Howard-Garrett-Weekly-ENewsletter_vq4662.htm\">Howard Garrett&#8217;s recent newsletter<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/jun\/15\/science\/la-sci-stressed-grasshoppers-change-soil-20120616\">&#8220;Fear factor seems relevant in decomposing bug&#8217;s effect on soil&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/70493498.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"517\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/13\/grasshoppers-stress-level-effects-soil-biology\/chemicals-in-the-frightened-bodies-of-grasshoppers-cause-them-to-decompose-more-slowly\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/70493498.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;unknown&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;[The herbivore grasshopper Melanoplus femurrubrum. If a grasshopper dies while it is scared and stressed out, its body can change the nutrient profile of soil as it decomposes, according to a new study in Science. Among other changes, the chemicals in their frightened bodies cause them to decompose more slowly. Photo by Dror Hawlena.] *** []&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Chemicals in the frightened bodies of grasshoppers cause them to decompose more slowly.&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Chemicals in the frightened bodies of grasshoppers cause them to decompose more slowly.\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;[The herbivore grasshopper Melanoplus femurrubrum. If a grasshopper dies while it is scared and stressed out, its body can change the nutrient profile of soil as it decomposes, according to a new study in Science. Among other changes, the chemicals in their frightened bodies cause them to decompose more slowly. Photo by Dror Hawlena.] *** []&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/70493498.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-517\" title=\"Chemicals in the frightened bodies of grasshoppers cause them to decompose more slowly.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/70493498-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/70493498.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/70493498.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It explains how the conditions a grasshopper dies under affect how beneficial the grasshoppers&#8217;s corpse is to the soil. \u00a0The grasshopper eats differently and processes its food differently if it is living under fear of death, and those differences change the way the grasshopper breaks down in the soil after its death. \u00a0Soil biology is complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was mentioned in Howard Garrett&#8217;s recent newsletter. &#8220;Fear factor seems relevant in decomposing bug&#8217;s effect on soil&#8221; It explains how the conditions a grasshopper dies under affect how beneficial the grasshoppers&#8217;s corpse is to the soil. \u00a0The grasshopper eats differently and processes its food differently if it is living under fear of death, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[119,118],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-soil-biology","tag-soil-web"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jPFc-8k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}