{"id":5430,"date":"2013-11-13T14:17:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T06:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=5430"},"modified":"2013-12-02T14:24:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T06:24:29","slug":"patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/13\/patrol\/","title":{"rendered":"On Patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131113-001-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5113\" alt=\"20131113 001 (3)\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131113-001-3-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131113-001-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131113-001-3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The guineas are worth their weight in gold for their pest management abilities. \u00a0For the last few weeks they sometimes haven&#8217;t even been bothered to come over for tea as they are so full of grasshopper. \u00a0 They spend their days marching in lines across different parts of the property. \u00a0They cover a lot of ground and we have barely seen any hoppers. \u00a0 In 2009, our first year here, we had to spray our plantation \u00a0in November, December and January to protect our <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/category\/farm\/trees\/\">3500 newly planted trees<\/a>. \u00a0The hoppers were in plague proportions everywhere else, when you walked, they moved like a wave in front of you. \u00a0This is a dodgy mobile phone video showing them on some tin &#8211; imagine what they were like on stuff they could eat!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1SU0jcvpYk8?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guineas are worth their weight in gold for their pest management abilities. \u00a0For the last few weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5113,"comment_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guinea-fowl","category-not-so-wildlife","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131113-001-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5433,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions\/5433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}