{"id":1700,"date":"2009-09-28T09:15:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T13:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2009-09-28T09:21:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T13:21:24","slug":"immigrant-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/09\/28\/immigrant-species\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Immigrant species&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Immigrant species are bad &#8211; they have done great harm all over.<br \/>\nSafe rule of thumb &#8211; if people can (and do) eat the species, its ok. For example no fruit trees have become pests big time even though we import all kinds of food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a comment made in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/search?rbauthors=Mark+Davis\">Mark Davis<\/a>&#8216; Sept 25 2009 article in\u00a0 New Scientist, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20327275.900-immigrant-species-arent-all-bad.html\" target=\"_blank\">Immigrant Species Aren&#8217;t All Bad<\/a> <\/em>(thanks to Marco Antonio Castro Cosio for sending).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigrant species are bad &#8211; they have done great harm all over. Safe rule of thumb &#8211; if people can (and do) eat the species, its ok. For example no fruit trees have become pests big time even though we import all kinds of food. This is a comment made in response to Mark Davis&#8216; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/09\/28\/immigrant-species\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Immigrant species&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}