{"id":6273,"date":"2015-07-05T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T19:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=6273"},"modified":"2015-06-23T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:08:08","slug":"highly-invasive-new-guinea-flatworm-spotted-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/07\/05\/highly-invasive-new-guinea-flatworm-spotted-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Highly invasive New Guinea flatworm spotted in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The more hours I spend in my yards the more I am becoming very aware and sensitive to how the native flora and fauna interplay.\u00a0 I’ve tried to be careful to avoid plants termed invasive (even if they are sold by home stores to the home-owner gardener).<\/p>\n

Beyond being alarmed by a newly spotted, highly invasive, transplant, this thing just ticks all my squeamish boxes (and I am a lot less squeamish after playing in the dirt every weekend).\u00a0 This thing can climb trees!<\/p>\n

Source: Highly invasive New Guinea flatworm spotted in U.S. – Boing Boing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The more hours I spend in my yards the more I am becoming very aware and sensitive to how the native flora and fauna interplay.\u00a0 I’ve tried to be careful to avoid plants termed invasive (even if they are sold by home stores to the home-owner gardener). Beyond being alarmed by a newly spotted, highly… Continue reading Highly invasive New Guinea flatworm spotted in Florida<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-6273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-gardening"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5225,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/american-manifesto-boing-boing\/","url_meta":{"origin":6273,"position":0},"title":"American Manifesto – Boing Boing","author":"leems","date":"August 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 American Manifesto by\u00a0Todd Thyberg via Boing Boing is a fabulous piece of thoroughly cited education.\u00a0 How can we hope to play our part in our country if we don't know the facts?\u00a0 And how can we call it our country if we don't play our part?","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/14.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/14.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/14.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6235,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/06\/12\/hamlet-is-way-funnier-as-choose-your-own-adventure-game-boing-boing\/","url_meta":{"origin":6273,"position":1},"title":"Hamlet is way funnier as choose-your-own-adventure game – Boing Boing","author":"leems","date":"June 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The world is making games that I want to play...for the first time since Strawberry Shortcake on Atari! 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