{"id":590,"date":"2009-06-08T07:48:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T15:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=590"},"modified":"2009-06-08T07:48:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T15:48:06","slug":"patron-saint-of-aphids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Patron saint of aphids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife brought home a tub of ladybugs that I&#8217;ve placed on my two hop plants. Aphids hit them hard the last 2 weeks and the ladybugs had no reservations about taking up residence. This morning I found 10 of the lil&#8217; bugs still hanging out on the plant, working on their quota of 50 aphids a day. I&#8217;ve also found a clutch of ladybug eggs on one of the leaves that I swear wasn&#8217;t there yesterday.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-591\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc_0008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc_0008-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"exterminator in residence\" title=\"exterminator in residence\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-591\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">exterminator in residence<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife brought home a tub of ladybugs that I&#8217;ve placed on my two hop plants. Aphids hit them hard the last 2 weeks and the ladybugs had no reservations about taking up residence. This morning I found 10 of the lil&#8217; bugs still hanging out on the plant, working on their quota of 50 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=590\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patron saint of aphids<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[59,90],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homebrew","tag-hops","tag-pests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}