{"id":71263,"date":"2025-04-23T14:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T05:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/23\/ive-woken-up-with-them-on-my-face-portuguese-millipede-infestation-horrifies-wellington"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T05:27:36","slug":"ive-woken-up-with-them-on-my-face-millipede-infestation-horrifies-wellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71263","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve woken up with them on my face\u2019: millipede infestation horrifies Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in the city\u2019s south despair amid swarm of putrid-smelling arthropods that mate inside building<\/p>\n<p>At a visitor centre on the south coast of New Zealand\u2019s capital, the blustery, briny wind is no match for the smell of thousands of decaying millipedes, which reek like decomposing vermin and rotting fish.<\/p>\n<p>Along the streets of Wellington\u2019s \u014cwhiro Bay, dead curled up millipedes are piled up on the footpath, as live ones march along the street. One resident says her neighbours collected five rubbish bags worth of the creatures in a week from around their home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/23\/ive-woken-up-with-them-on-my-face-portuguese-millipede-infestation-horrifies-wellington\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in the city\u2019s south despair amid swarm of putrid-smelling arthropods that mate inside buildingAt a visitor centre on the south coast of New Zealand\u2019s capital, the blustery, briny wind is no match for the smell of thousands of decaying millipe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4707,"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":[265,41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71263","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\/4707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71277,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71263\/revisions\/71277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}