{"id":10648,"date":"2014-05-21T18:47:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T01:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10648"},"modified":"2014-05-21T18:48:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T01:48:13","slug":"furniture-to-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10648","title":{"rendered":"Furniture to nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why is that wasp eating my deck furniture?<\/p>\n<p>Wasps gather wood fibre from dead wood and mix it\u00a0with saliva to use as a nest-building material. The wood may come from trees or plant stems, but also from a human&#8217;s outdoor furniture.<\/p>\n<p>A European Paper Wasp (<em>Polistes dominula<\/em>) chews wood of a weathered deck chair and will use it to build its nest.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10649\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/polistusdominula140521s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Why is that wasp eating my deck furniture? Wasps gather wood fibre from dead wood and mix it\u00a0with saliva to use as a nest-building material. The wood may come from trees or plant stems, but also from a human&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10648\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10648"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10657,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648\/revisions\/10657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}