{"id":1099,"date":"2006-05-30T09:40:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/parents_hide_your_children_--_this_blob_has_absolutely_no_socially_redeeming_value_whatsoever.html"},"modified":"2006-05-30T09:40:23","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T17:40:23","slug":"parents_hide_yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/parents_hide_yo.html","title":{"rendered":"Parents, Hide Your Children &#8212; This Blob Has Absolutely No Socially Redeeming Value Whatsoever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can thank our lack of Long Island Sound lobster to the sealife-devouring sea squirt, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/story\/421946p-356198c.html\">known simply as a &#8220;blob&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A blob-like creature is invading Long Island Sound and posing a threat to its lobsters and other shellfish, University of Connecticut scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say they have found colonies of invasive sea squirts, blob-shaped animals that reproduce easily, on the floor of the Sound.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists believe this variety of sea squirt, known as didemnum, arrived on the hulls of ships from Asia. They have no known predators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This thing has the potential for causing significant economic impact when it attaches to the floor of the Sound, where it blankets and suffocates shellfish and lobsters,&#8221; said Ivar Babb, director of the university&#8217;s Undersea Research Center at Avery Point in Groton.<\/p>\n<p>The animals range in color from a creamy translucent pearl to olive or tan. In Japan, there are some red species.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This thing is ugly,&#8221; Babb said. &#8220;It has no socially redeeming virtues.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can thank our lack of Long Island Sound lobster to the sealife-devouring sea squirt, known simply as a &#8220;blob&#8221;: A blob-like creature is invading Long Island Sound and posing a threat to its lobsters and other shellfish, University of Connecticut scientists say. The researchers say they have found colonies of invasive sea squirts, blob-shaped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_natural_world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}