{"id":11505,"date":"2017-09-05T18:53:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T23:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11505"},"modified":"2017-09-05T18:53:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T23:53:14","slug":"every-critter-for-itself-may-backfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/05\/every-critter-for-itself-may-backfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Critter For Itself May Backfire"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a hurricane like Harvey, it’s not just humans that need help – but some of the wildlife as well. Melissa Breyer of\u00a0Treehugger.com\u00a0<\/b><\/i>reports\u00a0<\/a>why helping bats is helping the human inhabitants of Houston:<\/p>\n

So why the sudden focus on bats? Sure, there are bat lovers for whom this might be of particular interest \u2013 compassion is compassion. But there are people and pets in dire need of attention. Yet here\u2019s the thing: The Waugh Bridge colony eats around two and a half tons of insects every night. Without them, Houston\u2019s mosquito population would look very different. Popular Science writes, “A dead bat is a bat that can no longer consume huge meals made of Houston’s mosquitoes \u2013 mosquitoes that may lead to a proliferation of diseases after the flood.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It’s not that bats completely suppress the mosquitoes, but rather than they are kept at a level that is manageable. Stirring up the system through an injection of a huge amount of energy in the form of Harvey disturbs the current static system – and means humans may suffer more than just the direct hit from Harvey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With a hurricane like Harvey, it’s not just humans that need help – but some of the wildlife as well. Melissa Breyer of\u00a0Treehugger.com\u00a0reports\u00a0why helping bats is helping the human inhabitants of Houston: So why the sudden focus on bats? Sure, there are bat lovers for whom this might be of \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11506,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505\/revisions\/11506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}