{"id":599,"date":"2016-10-28T08:41:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:39:07","slug":"fun-fact-friday-pests-that-destroy-other-pests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Fun Fact Friday \u2013 Pests that Destroy other Pests"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Fun Fact Friday \u2013 Pests that Destroy other Pests<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ladybugs are attracted to pollen.<\/li>\n<li>A single ladybug can eat up to 50 aphids a day.<\/li>\n<li>Fire Ant colonies can grow 18 to 24 inches in height.<\/li>\n<li>Spiders are the best garden predators to have around.<\/li>\n<li>Stink bugs emit a deterring odor whenever they feel threatened or injured.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers believe that primitive grasshoppers existed even before dinosaurs.<\/li>\n<li>Praying mantises eat flies, crickets, moths, caterpillars, locusts and some other insects.<\/li>\n<li>Dragonflies control the insect population by preying on midges, gnats, and mosquitoes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun Fact Friday \u2013 Pests that Destroy other Pests Ladybugs are attracted to pollen. A single ladybug can eat up to 50 aphids a day. Fire Ant colonies can grow 18 to 24 inches in height. Spiders are the best garden predators to have around. Stink bugs emit a deterring odor whenever they feel threatened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[63,115],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pest-control","tag-insects","tag-pests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12737,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/12737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}