{"id":1205,"date":"2012-06-11T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2016-11-03T20:04:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T20:04:39","slug":"mosquitoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/mosquitoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosquitoes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/assets\/images\/conservation\/blog\/mosquito-resized.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.algonquinpark.on.ca\/visit\/park_management\/mosquitoes-and-blackflies-(biting-insects).php\" target=\"_blank\">Image Credit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever try to get rid of mosquitoes by spraying them with water? You may want to try another tactic!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s crazy to think that a tiny mosquito can survive a downpour but according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/release.html?nid=133841\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia Tech researchers<\/a>, mosquitoes are able to do just this. What allows mosquitoes to survive in rain where a single rain drop can weigh 50 times more than a mosquito? It\u2019s their exoskeleton (the hard outer structure that is found on some animals such as insects) and their low mass.<\/p>\n<p>Just think \u2013 this would be the equivalent of us getting hit by a car.<\/p>\n<p>I always knew mosquitoes were tough little insects \u2013 just not this tough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Image Credit Ever try to get rid of mosquitoes by spraying them with water? You may want to try another tactic! It\u2019s crazy to think that a tiny mosquito can&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[633],"tags":[486],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-wildlife","tag-mosquitoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}