{"id":52499,"date":"2026-05-13T16:52:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/alarming-looking-caterpillar-webs-in-exeter-park-harmless\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:52:05","slug":"alarming-looking-caterpillar-webs-in-exeter-park-harmless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/alarming-looking-caterpillar-webs-in-exeter-park-harmless\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Alarming-looking&#8217; caterpillar webs in Exeter park &#8216;harmless&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">&#8220;They can sometimes completely strip the bush or tree of its leaves but it&#8217;s nothing to worry about,&#8221; a spokesperson added. &#8220;While it can look alarming, the plant usually suffers no permanent damage. The webs are there to protect the caterpillars from predators.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5yx7ljr7yzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They can sometimes completely strip the bush or tree of its leaves but it&#8217;s nothing to worry about,&#8221; a spokesperson added. &#8220;While it can look alarming, the plant usually suffers no permanent damage. The webs are there to protect the caterpillars from predators.&#8221; Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[15063,15064,3275,15066,2757,15065],"class_list":["post-52499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-alarminglooking","tag-caterpillar","tag-exeter","tag-harmless","tag-park","tag-webs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52501,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52499\/revisions\/52501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}