{"id":158343,"date":"2026-10-04T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158343"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T11:00:12","slug":"beijing-fights-invasive-moths-with-parasitic-wasps-and-caterpillar-catching-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158343","title":{"rendered":"Beijing fights invasive moths with parasitic wasps and caterpillar-catching contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAuthorities in the Chinese capital are releasing more than a billion parasitic wasps and encouraging caterpillar-catching competitions to try to contain the spread of the invasive North American fall webworm.<br \/>\nThe caterpillars have blanketed trees in Beijing and surrounding areas this summer, spinning clouds of greyish-white webs as they eat their way through foliage.<br \/>\nThe insects are the fuzzy larval stage of Hyphantria cunea and metamorphose into adult white moths.<\/p>\n<p>While not harmful to humans,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3369693\/beijing-fights-invasive-moths-parasitic-wasps-and-caterpillar-catching-contests?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAuthorities in the Chinese capital are releasing more than a billion parasitic wasps and encouraging caterpillar-catching competitions to try to contain the spread of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}