{"id":8127,"date":"2016-08-26T20:05:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T00:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2016-08-26T20:05:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T00:05:35","slug":"mosquitoes-and-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/mosquitoes-and-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosquitoes and weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the news today I heard that the FDA is recommending that we test all blood donations for the Zika virus, which is carried by mosquitoes and can cause severe birth defects in babies if the mother gets infected during pregnancy. \u00a0Zika is just one of several severe diseases that is carried by mosquitoes in hot, humid climates, including Florida. \u00a0Do you know the relationship between weather and mosquitoes? \u00a0WeatherSTEM has a simple lesson geared towards kids on how weather can affect the birth and growth of mosquitoes. You might learn something too. \u00a0Check it out at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/learn.weatherstem.com\/modules\/learn\/lessons\/132\/index.html\">https:\/\/learn.weatherstem.com\/modules\/learn\/lessons\/132\/index.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5247\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Anopheles_gambiae_mosquito_feeding_1354.p_lores.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5247\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Anopheles_gambiae_mosquito_feeding_1354.p_lores-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Source: James Gathany, CDC\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Anopheles_gambiae_mosquito_feeding_1354.p_lores-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Anopheles_gambiae_mosquito_feeding_1354.p_lores-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/11\/Anopheles_gambiae_mosquito_feeding_1354.p_lores.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: James Gathany, CDC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the news today I heard that the FDA is recommending that we test all blood donations for the Zika virus, which is carried by mosquitoes and can cause severe birth defects in babies if the mother gets infected during pregnancy. \u00a0Zika is just one of several severe diseases that is carried by mosquitoes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","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=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8128,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions\/8128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}