{"id":146,"date":"2012-08-31T18:38:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T18:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/?p=146"},"modified":"2012-08-31T18:38:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T18:38:57","slug":"insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/about-the-area\/insects\/","title":{"rendered":"Insects!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a slow news month for Thamesmead, which is a good thing, since the previous big news in the area was the killing of some poor old lady who was robbed, tied up, and left to die in her house.<\/p>\n<p>Passing over that, swiftly, though, the latest headlines are all about the insects. First up we have one Dave Crouchman who spotted a dangerous spider in his garage. His reluctance to park his car in there subsequently made headlines. &#8220;I am scared of spiders in general, until I held a tarantula at a wildlife park &#8211; I still don\u2019t like them but am more tolerant now,&#8221; quotes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsshopper.co.uk\/news\/greenwich\/9887046.UK_s_most_dangerous_spider_spied_in_Thamesmead\/\">News Shopper website<\/a>, leaving me to wonder why an arachnophone felt the urge to call the local press over a case of being disturbed by the proximity of a spider. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;d have recognised a deadly spider from any other. <\/p>\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.39 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:5px;\">\n\n <!-- WP QUADS - Quick AdSense Reloaded v.2.0.39 Content AdSense async --> \n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" >\nvar quads_screen_width = document.body.clientWidth;\nif ( quads_screen_width >= 1140 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }if ( quads_screen_width >= 1024  && quads_screen_width < 1140 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }if ( quads_screen_width >= 768  && quads_screen_width < 1024 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }if ( quads_screen_width < 768 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }\n<\/script>\n\n <!-- end WP QUADS --> \n\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>More recently, we come into contact with webs again in the headlines, this time the product of caterpillars. It seems a lot of them have congregated around some bushes near Belmarsh Prison and created a large protective web. This is unusual only in terms of its size, but again it&#8217;s seen as news-worthy, this time being reported with even less sensational quotes such as the local expert&#8217;s view on things: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsshopper.co.uk\/news\/9901889.Giant_web_discovered_in_Thamesmead\/?ref=twtrec\">&#8220;The caterpillars are harmless to us, but I reckon those bushes are stuffed.&#8221;<\/a> Apparantly the elderly neighbourhood is stunned and has never seen anything like it.<\/p>\n<p>Local news at its raciest? Perhaps not.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a slow news month for Thamesmead, which is a good thing, since the previous big news in the area was the killing of some poor old lady who was robbed, tied up, and left to die in her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/about-the-area\/insects\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[80,84,130,154,156,202,213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}