{"id":390458,"date":"2017-10-18T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=28965a48d668e5e4d99df7322032715e"},"modified":"2017-10-18T18:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T22:00:02","slug":"how-well-fed-mosquitoes-outwit-victims-at-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=390458","title":{"rendered":"How well-fed mosquitoes outwit victims at take-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stealth and haste are often at the heart of most successful raids, and the forays of famished female mosquitoes are no different. &#8220;Female mosquitoes need a blood meal to develop their eggs,&#8221; explains Florian Muijres, from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, adding that zipping in and out after a quick sip without attracting the attention of the unfortunate victim is essential if the insect is to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stealth and haste are often at the heart of most successful raids, and the forays of famished female mosquitoes are no different. &#8220;Female mosquitoes need a blood meal to develop their eggs,&#8221; explains Florian Muijres, from Wageningen University, The Net&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390458","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390651,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390458\/revisions\/390651"}],"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=390458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}