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I think the key is to pick them when they are still tiny and can’t offer any resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You saw them before. They seemed to come out of nowhere and hover about.When they appeared to be bringing in reinforcements, we felt a little threatened and wondered what, if anything we could do to defend ourselves.But then we discovered … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[28],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>When they appeared to be bringing in reinforcements, we felt a little threatened and wondered what, if anything we could do to defend ourselves.![\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236962829442962610\"](\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SK1t8l7fVLI\/AAAAAAAACWs\/pBd2ANWaNdQ\/s1600-h\/mothership.jpg\")
<\/a>But then we discovered that they are actually edible!![\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231010194541081794\"](\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SJhIDo4RdMI\/AAAAAAAACNs\/m9A4RsnovF0\/s1600-h\/patties.jpg\")
<\/a>And then this morning, I traced them to the source. They look particularly innocent when they are babies, don’t they?![\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236964337631061954\"](\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SK1vUYXjZ8I\/AAAAAAAACW0\/lMFOLUjaF-4\/s1600-h\/patty_pan.jpg\")
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