{"id":744,"date":"2015-06-05T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/?p=744"},"modified":"2015-06-05T12:01:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T12:01:38","slug":"invasive-earthworms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/invasive-earthworms\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasive Earthworms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Metal-Pollutants-in-Earth-Worms-940.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Metal-Pollutants-in-Earth-Worms-940-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"Metal-Pollutants-in-Earth-Worms-940\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Metal-Pollutants-in-Earth-Worms-940-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Metal-Pollutants-in-Earth-Worms-940-250x107.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Metal-Pollutants-in-Earth-Worms-940-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Metal-Pollutants-in-Earth-Worms-940.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s true that the early bird catches the worm but, in New England\u2019s forests, the worm might actually be killing the bird with toxic trace metals&#8230; \u201cOne thing that people can do to help is to not release earthworms in the northeastern United States,\u00a0&#8230;\u00a0Another thing is to just have an appreciation for the soil.\u201d \u00a0For more information, see The WildLife Society (TWS) article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wildlife.org\/invasive-earthworms-spread-mercury-to-wildlife\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wildlife.org\/invasive-earthworms-spread-mercury-to-wildlife\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Metal-Pollutants-in-Earth-Worms-940.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Metal-Pollutants-in-Earth-Worms-940-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"Metal-Pollutants-in-Earth-Worms-940\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Metal-Pollutants-in-Earth-Worms-940-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Metal-Pollutants-in-Earth-Worms-940-250x107.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Metal-Pollutants-in-Earth-Worms-940-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Metal-Pollutants-in-Earth-Worms-940.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s true that the early bird catches the worm but, in New England\u2019s forests, the worm might actually be killing the bird with toxic trace metals&#8230;  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/invasive-earthworms\/\"> Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}