{"id":28215,"date":"2019-08-20T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T16:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28215"},"modified":"2019-08-20T13:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T18:50:01","slug":"silverfish-and-daddy-longlegs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28215","title":{"rendered":"Silverfish and Daddy long legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/84\/LepismaSaccharina.jpg\/1280px-LepismaSaccharina.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A week ago I saw the first silverfish since I was in junior high school in North Mankato, Minnesota. Back then our basement had these creepy silvery bugs in it. A lot of them. I squashed the one who wriggled into dreaded light last week. They are found in damp places and avoid the light. Our house in North Mankato lay in the Minnesota River&#8217;s flood plain. It had been flooded in 1950 the year I was born in Kansas although, I would not move in with the silverfish until thirteen years later.<\/p>\n<p>Reading the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silverfish\">Wikipedia entry <\/a>on the critters I realized they were not a new species in our area. Its just one I&#8217;d not seen before so unlike the cardinals I&#8217;d grown up with in Kansas but only started seeing twenty years ago its not a species fleeing climate change.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t recall if I&#8217;ve mentioned the venus fly trap we bought for our older grandson. It has a taste for daddy long legs. We took it outside by our garden and it has consumed about a half dozen of them. The last one managed to have half its body sticking out of the Venus&#8217;s maw and not just its legs.<\/p>\n<p>We also have been setting a trap for fruit flies which invade this time of year. Its a jar containing apple cider with a saran wrap cover poked with toothpick holes. Its very gratifying to see the little buggers dive to their doom though one of the holes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago I saw the first silverfish since I was in junior high school in North Mankato, Minnesota. Back then our basement had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28215"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28220,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28215\/revisions\/28220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}