{"id":235,"date":"2005-05-12T09:11:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T17:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/05\/does_the_asian_longhorned_beetle_perhaps_suffer_from_allergies.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T13:39:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T18:39:57","slug":"does_the_asian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/does_the_asian.html","title":{"rendered":"Does the Asian Longhorned Beetle Perhaps Suffer from Allergies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you noticed yourself sneezing more in the past couple of days, it&#8217;s not your fault; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/308688p-264143c.html\">tree pollen is atrociously high right now<\/a>. The Daily News offers tips to save yourself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wash your hair every night and, before entering your bedroom, change your clothes to remove pollen that collects during the day.<\/li>\n<li>At home or when driving, keep the windows closed and set the air conditioner to recirculate air to keep out pollen.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid eating apples, pears and hazelnuts (even hazelnut-flavored coffee) if you suffer from tree pollen allergies.<\/li>\n<li>If you are allergic to grass pollen (peak season is in June), avoid celery, cereal grains, melons and tomatoes.<\/li>\n<li>If you are allergic to weed pollen (peak season is in late August to September), avoid bananas, zucchini, cucumbers, echinacea and sunflower seeds.<\/li>\n<li>If you have a yard, keep grass cut short and flower beds weed free. Avoid planting junipers, Bermuda grass, ryegrass and chrysanthemums. Go for less allergy-inducing plants such as azaleas, begonias, bulbs (tulips, irises, poppies and daffodils), and palms, pines, firs and dogwoods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before the end of the day, I will be replacing all of the city&#8217;s trees with palms. We will be the Miami of the North.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this will be moot when the dreaded Asian Longhorned Beetle eats all the city&#8217;s trees and once and for all takes care of our allergy problems: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/308751p-264191c.html\">&#8220;Beetle may kill half of city trees.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Familiarize yourself with your allergy-alleviating comrades: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/ppq\/ep\/alb\/\">USDA Plant Protection and Quarantine Asian Longhorned Beetle Backgrounder<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you noticed yourself sneezing more in the past couple of days, it&#8217;s not your fault; tree pollen is atrociously high right now. The Daily News offers tips to save yourself: Wash your hair every night and, before entering your bedroom, change your clothes to remove pollen that collects during the day. At home or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public_service_announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}