{"id":13535,"date":"2018-01-22T10:11:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=13535"},"modified":"2018-01-22T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:11:55","slug":"how-cold-is-too-cold-for-redbay-ambrosia-beetles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/01\/how-cold-is-too-cold-for-redbay-ambrosia-beetles\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How Cold Is Too Cold for Redbay Ambrosia Beetles?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid in Michigan, my grandmother&#8217;s yard was filled with sassafras trees. So I was very interested in this article from the USDA about ambrosia beetles, which can kill a sassafras tree in just four weeks. Will milder winters cause the trees I remember from Michigan succumb to ambrosia beetles in the future? The article can be found in their CompassLive blog at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.srs.fs.usda.gov\/compass\/2018\/01\/18\/how-cold-is-too-cold-for-redbay-ambrosia-beetles\/\">https:\/\/www.srs.fs.usda.gov\/compass\/2018\/01\/18\/how-cold-is-too-cold-for-redbay-ambrosia-beetles\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13536\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/sassafras-leaves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13536\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/sassafras-leaves-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/sassafras-leaves-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/sassafras-leaves-96x138.jpg 96w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/sassafras-leaves.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Nicholas A. Tonnelli via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid in Michigan, my grandmother&#8217;s yard was filled with sassafras trees. So I was very interested in this article from the USDA about ambrosia beetles, which can kill a sassafras tree in just four weeks. Will milder winters cause the trees I remember from Michigan succumb to ambrosia beetles in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":13536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13537,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535\/revisions\/13537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}