{"id":44021,"date":"2022-04-29T14:20:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T05:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/29\/theyre-so-sneaky-new-zealand-homeowners-battle-plague-of-smelly-cluster-flies"},"modified":"2022-04-29T14:20:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T05:20:27","slug":"theyre-so-sneaky-new-zealand-homeowners-battle-plague-of-smelly-cluster-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44021","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re so sneaky\u2019: New Zealand homeowners battle plague of smelly cluster flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changing climate means infestations of pesky insects could become more common, experts say<\/p>\n<p>They smell like sweet meat, destroy vacuum cleaners and are wreaking havoc across rural New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>An unusually wet summer has brought joy to farmers and grief to residents, as a plague of cluster flies descends on homes in the Canterbury and Wairarapa regions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/29\/theyre-so-sneaky-new-zealand-homeowners-battle-plague-of-smelly-cluster-flies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing climate means infestations of pesky insects could become more common, experts sayThey smell like sweet meat, destroy vacuum cleaners and are wreaking havoc across rural New Zealand.An unusually wet summer has brought joy to farmers and grief t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,777,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-insects","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44022,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44021\/revisions\/44022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}