{"id":1681,"date":"2010-09-03T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2010-09-03T09:53:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:53:48","slug":"new-species-of-termite-invades-grand-bahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/new-species-of-termite-invades-grand-bahama","title":{"rendered":"New Species of Termite Invades Grand Bahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If home owners thought a hurricane was the only thing they had to worry about, think again.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1682\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1682\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"termite-damage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/termite-damage-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/termite-damage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/termite-damage-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/termite-damage.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example of the damage caused by termites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A new species of termite  have been discovered on Grand Bahama and it is said to be a particularly aggressive breed.<\/p>\n<p>Hue Ferguson operations manager at Budget Pest Control revealed that  he came across the Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki, a destructive species  of termite while inspecting a commercial establishment in the Port  Lucaya area on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This species of termites is known worldwide as the most aggressively destructive termite in the world,&#8221; Ferguson noted.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ferguson this is the first time this termite species has been identified in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new species of termite have been discovered on Grand Bahama and it is said to be a particularly aggressive breed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}