{"id":466,"date":"2007-08-17T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2007\/08\/pirates-and-ninjas\/"},"modified":"2009-02-06T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T17:23:25","slug":"pirates-and-ninjas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2007\/08\/17\/pirates-and-ninjas\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates and Ninjas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/crypto.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Cryptolaemus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>*Cryptolaemus* are hefty, slow, but unstoppably brutal. They devour mealybugs in vast quantities, plowing through dense egg masses like tanks. Each individual may consume up to 250 mealybugs during its 2-3 week larval stage, and each adult female may lay up to 400 eggs in her lifetime. Do the Maths yourself.<\/p>\n<p>*Cryptolaemus* are cool for the same reasons that pirates are cool.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/lepto.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Leptomastix\" \/><\/p>\n<p>*Leptomastix* are small, nimble, and move faster than the eye can see. The female pounces upon the fully-grown mealybug, delivering an attack that will irreversibly lead to a slow, agonising death, before disappearing into the night without a trace. Within two weeks, up to 100 mealybugs will be the victim of this fearful assassin. No matter where her enemies hide, she will find them.<\/p>\n<p>And what is this mysterious poison that she uses? *Her own offspring*, who will devour her target from the inside out.<\/p>\n<p>*Leptomastix* are cool for the same reason that ninjas are cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Cryptolaemus* are hefty, slow, but unstoppably brutal. They devour mealybugs in vast quantities, plowing through dense egg masses like tanks. Each individual may consume up to 250 mealybugs during its 2-3 week larval stage, and each adult female may lay up to 400 eggs in her lifetime. Do the Maths yourself. *Cryptolaemus* are cool for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[591,15],"tags":[407,408,409],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-gardening","tag-cryptolaemus","tag-leptomastix","tag-mealybugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}