{"id":141,"date":"2006-01-24T08:32:17","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T22:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/archives\/2006\/01\/24\/beetle-time\/"},"modified":"2006-01-24T08:32:17","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T22:32:17","slug":"beetle-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/archives\/2006\/01\/24\/beetle-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Beetle Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year about this time Canberra is infested with beetles that mate then die.\u00c2\u00a0 This morning I heard on the radio what these little beetles are called.<\/p>\n<p>Now fair warning this is the real common name and not a joke at all.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<a title=\"CSIRO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ento.csiro.au\/aicn\/system\/c_947.htm\">Cockchafer<\/a>&#8220;, yep you read right, beetle is a member of the Scarab or dung beetle family.\u00c2\u00a0 Their larvae live underground and come up to feed on crops at night.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The beetles\u00c2\u00a0 live a short eventful life, they mate the male dies and the female finds some dung to lay her eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunatly in and around the city they are attracted to lights and end up lin large piles against buildings, a lot like a large squirming black snow drift.\u00c2\u00a0 The majority then die and start to smell a little.<\/p>\n<p>One of the joys of summer in Canberra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year about this time Canberra is infested with beetles that mate then die.\u00c2\u00a0 This morning I heard on the radio what these little beetles are called. Now fair warning this is the real common name and not a joke at all. The &#8220;Cockchafer&#8220;, yep you read right, beetle is a member of the Scarab &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/archives\/2006\/01\/24\/beetle-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beetle Time!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Canberra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}