{"id":2151,"date":"2006-08-16T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T01:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2017-07-18T10:54:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T15:54:47","slug":"munch-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-critters\/munch-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Munch Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;m still working on turning over my mulch pile. I have to take it slow because even at dusk the temperatures are hovering at 100. Tonight I noticed the large lizard that I&#8217;ve seen before hanging out around the mulch. When I exposed a rather dried out section of the pile scores of beetles and roaches ran for shelter. That lizard was on them like a duck on june bug.<\/p>\n<p>We were both smiling after his meal. (Anything that will eat cockroaches has my seal of approval.)<\/p>\n<p>I think the lizard&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zo.utexas.edu\/research\/txherps\/lizards\/sceloporus.olivaceus.html\">Texas Spiny Lizard<\/a> (<i>Sceloporus olivaceus<\/i>). He&#8217;s too fast for me to get a photo or even a good look. But he does race up a tree if he thinks I&#8217;m threatening him and he blends well against the color of the tree trunks. And he&#8217;s quite big&#8211;easily 6 to 8 inches long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roaches for dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[533,532],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5359,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/5359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}