{"id":877,"date":"2014-09-19T09:43:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T13:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=877"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:17:37","slug":"kudzu-bugs-lower-due-to-cold-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/09\/kudzu-bugs-lower-due-to-cold-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudzu bugs lower due to cold winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Thompson reported this week in <em>Growing Georgia<\/em> that the number of kudzu bugs in soybean fields this year has been drastically lower than the past few years.\u00a0 Wayne Gardner, a UGA entomologist from Griffin, attributes this to the cold weather we had across the Southeast this winter.\u00a0 A tiny Asian wasp may also have reduced numbers in recent years.\u00a0 The only downside&#8211;kudzu is growing better than ever.\u00a0 If we have a normal winter next year, the bugs are expected to rebound to their former levels, however.\u00a0 You can read the story <a title=\"Kudzu bugs decreased\" href=\"https:\/\/growinggeorgia.com\/news\/2014\/09\/kudzu-bug-numbers-are-drastically-lower\/?utm_source=Growing+Georgia&amp;utm_campaign=54311110ee-growinggeorgia-daily_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4643f190f7-54311110ee-296638373\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Thompson reported this week in Growing Georgia that the number of kudzu bugs in soybean fields this year has been drastically lower than the past few years.\u00a0 Wayne Gardner, a UGA entomologist from Griffin, attributes this to the cold weather we had across the Southeast this winter.\u00a0 A tiny Asian wasp may also have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","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=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22895,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/22895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}