{"id":262141,"date":"2017-01-17T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1dd64dba2383110692a9829275751116"},"modified":"2017-01-17T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T15:16:08","slug":"southern-african-maize-munching-pest-is-south-american-invader-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=262141","title":{"rendered":"Southern African maize munching pest is South American invader: experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUSAKA (Reuters) &#8211; A maize pest that has devastated crops in southern Africa is a South American species which is harder to detect and eradicate than its African counterpart, agriculture officials and experts said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=hvgJvQsbAB4:f9jE6Dt4cwQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=hvgJvQsbAB4:f9jE6Dt4cwQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=hvgJvQsbAB4:f9jE6Dt4cwQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=hvgJvQsbAB4:f9jE6Dt4cwQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=hvgJvQsbAB4:f9jE6Dt4cwQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~4\/hvgJvQsbAB4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUSAKA (Reuters) &#8211; A maize pest that has devastated crops in southern Africa is a South American species which is harder to detect and eradicate than its African counterpart, agriculture officials and experts said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262142,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262141\/revisions\/262142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}