{"id":21724,"date":"2022-04-13T17:38:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=21724"},"modified":"2022-04-13T17:38:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:38:32","slug":"dont-touch-the-tussock-moth-caterpillar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/04\/13\/dont-touch-the-tussock-moth-caterpillar\/","title":{"rendered":"DON&#8217;T TOUCH the tussock moth caterpillar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DON&#8217;T TOUCH <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t6f\/1\/16\/1f6ab.png\" alt=\"?\"> Florida is full of critters from scaly to furry to feathery and everything in between. And not all of them are friendly. One, in particular, is prompting a warning from scientists and health departments \u2014 the tussock moth caterpillar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"522\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/278415396_5846433862056984_4805634779857881134_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/278415396_5846433862056984_4805634779857881134_n.jpg 526w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/278415396_5846433862056984_4805634779857881134_n-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/278415396_5846433862056984_4805634779857881134_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It may look soft and fun to pet, but it most certainly isn&#8217;t. In fact, it can leave you with venomous prickly hairs and a stinging rash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep this in mind because mid-April is the time the caterpillars are reaching maturity and are wandering around in search of the perfect place to spin their cocoons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DON&#8217;T TOUCH Florida is full of critters from scaly to furry to feathery and everything in between. And not all of them are friendly. One, in particular, is prompting a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[2708],"class_list":["post-21724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-dont-touch-the-tussock-moth-caterpillar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}