{"id":10750,"date":"2013-05-23T23:50:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=10750"},"modified":"2013-05-23T23:50:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:50:15","slug":"amazing-stomach-turning-pictures-of-termite-apocalypse-which-spread-overnight-through-usa-southern-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=10750","title":{"rendered":"Amazing stomach-turning pictures of &#8216;termite apocalypse&#8217; which spread overnight through USA southern states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/t3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-10746\" alt=\"t3\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/t3.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/t3.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/t3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/t3-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/t3-301x300.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a>New Orleans was struck by tens of thousands of swarming Formosan termites on Wednesday night causing hundreds of thousands of people&#8217;s skin to crawl.<\/p>\n<p>Resembling something out of a creepy disaster movie, the termites made for any car headlights, streetlights or lit homes they could find in residential or commercial areas.<\/p>\n<p>Formosan termites are not native to the United States and were introduced from the Far East in packing crates and other wood products during World War Two.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the huge swarms of the Formosan termites is because they only are capable of flying 300 yards in search of a mate and then the pair drop to the ground to burrow a nest if successful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans was struck by tens of thousands of swarming Formosan termites on Wednesday night&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}