{"id":95073,"date":"2019-08-21T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/tiny-wasp-takes-aim-at-emerald-ash-borer-beetles"},"modified":"2019-08-21T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T19:02:33","slug":"tiny-wasp-takes-aim-at-emerald-ash-borer-beetles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/tiny-wasp-takes-aim-at-emerald-ash-borer-beetles","title":{"rendered":"Tiny wasp takes aim at emerald ash borer beetles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-wasp-takes-aim-at-emerald-ash-borer-beetles3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Several hundred million ash trees around the nation have fallen victim to a beetle known as the emerald ash borer. Thousands of doomed trees once stood tall in the D.C. area, according to bug guy Mike Raupp, an entomologist at the University of Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a devastating pest,\u201d said Raupp.<\/p>\n<p>Local governments are fighting back against what Raupp says is a tsunami of the beetles, which chew their way into the tree and feed on what\u2019s underneath the bark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Several hundred million ash trees around the nation have fallen victim to a beetle known as the emerald ash borer. Thousands of doomed trees once stood tall in the D.C. area, according to bug guy Mike Raupp, an entomologist at the University of Maryland. \u201cThis is a devastating pest,\u201d said Raupp. Local governments [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}