{"id":14304,"date":"2018-04-22T19:51:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T23:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14304"},"modified":"2018-04-22T19:51:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T23:51:03","slug":"earlier-bat-migration-could-cause-problems-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/04\/earlier-bat-migration-could-cause-problems-for-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Earlier bat migration could cause problems for farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Scientific American<\/em> posted an article earlier this week describing how bats are migrating earlier than in previous decades. Because of the earlier arrival, they may be having trouble finding enough insects to eat when they arrive at their destination, which could lead to reductions in population which could hurt bats&#8217; ability to eat insect pests that plague farmers.\u00a0 You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/bats-are-migrating-earlier-and-it-could-wreak-havoc-on-farming\/\">https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/bats-are-migrating-earlier-and-it-could-wreak-havoc-on-farming\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14305\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/640px-Bat_cave_in_El_Maviri_Sinaloa_-_Mexico.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14305\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/640px-Bat_cave_in_El_Maviri_Sinaloa_-_Mexico-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/640px-Bat_cave_in_El_Maviri_Sinaloa_-_Mexico-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/640px-Bat_cave_in_El_Maviri_Sinaloa_-_Mexico-228x138.jpg 228w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/04\/640px-Bat_cave_in_El_Maviri_Sinaloa_-_Mexico.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Tomas Castelazo, www.tomascastelazo.com \/ Wikimedia Commons \/ CC BY-SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American posted an article earlier this week describing how bats are migrating earlier than in previous decades. Because of the earlier arrival, they may be having trouble finding enough insects to eat when they arrive at their destination, which could lead to reductions in population which could hurt bats&#8217; ability to eat insect pests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":14305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14304","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14306,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14304\/revisions\/14306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}