{"id":47343,"date":"2023-11-15T20:40:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T09:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47343"},"modified":"2023-11-15T20:40:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T09:40:11","slug":"stenopalmatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47343","title":{"rendered":"Stenopalmatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-47344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Stenopalmatus-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stenopalmatus\" width=\"797\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Stenopalmatus-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Stenopalmatus.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Have you seen me in your yard? I&#8217;m a Stenopelmatus. Please&#8230; DON&#8217;T kill me!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I would like to tell you a little about myself. Many people also know me as a potato bug, Jerusalem cricket, Skull Insect, Childface, or Mother of Scorpion. People get scared when they see me and want to kill me. The reality is that I&#8217;m running from you.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I&#8217;m not a spider nor scorpion nor cricket, and I HAVE NO POISON. My only weapon is my mandibles. With them, I feed off the organic waste that is found next to garden plants.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We have a very important role in the environment, because we help plant growth, thanks to removing the earth and thus allowing soil oxygenation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">My life span is a year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">If you find me at night, don&#8217;t kill me. I&#8217;m just looking for food and a safe place to hide. Please&#8230; DON&#8217;T kill me!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">With information from Biological Community<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen me in your yard? I&#8217;m a Stenopelmatus. Please&#8230; DON&#8217;T kill me! I would like to tell you a little about myself. Many people also know me as a potato bug, Jerusalem cricket, Skull Insect, Childface, or Mother of Scorpion. People get scared when they see me and want to kill me. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=47343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stenopalmatus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47345,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47343\/revisions\/47345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}