{"id":18913,"date":"2020-09-11T14:57:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T21:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18913"},"modified":"2020-09-11T14:10:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T21:10:33","slug":"giant-clouds-of-mosquitoes-are-so-thick-since-hurricane-laura-that-theyre-killing-cattle-and-horses-in-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/giant-clouds-of-mosquitoes-are-so-thick-since-hurricane-laura-that-theyre-killing-cattle-and-horses-in-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant clouds of mosquitoes are so thick since Hurricane Laura that they\u2019re killing cattle and horses in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Strange Sounds<\/a> – September 11, 2020<\/p>\n

Experts in southwest Louisiana say clouds of mosquitoes have been so thick since Hurricane Laura that they\u2019re killing cattle and horses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to first estimates, hundreds of cattle and a few horses have been killed in a five-parish area in southwest Louisiana.<\/p>\n

Veterinarian Craig Fontenot of Ville Platte says the swarms drain animals\u2019 blood and animals also become exhausted from constantly moving in an attempt to avoid the biting insects.<\/strong><\/p>\n

LSU AgCenter agent Jeremy Hebert said he has spoken to several cattle owners who have lost as many as eight animals. He had also heard of three mosquito-related deaths of horses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fontenot estimates that hundreds of cattle and a few horses have been killed in his five-parish area.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot on the verge of dying,<\/strong><\/em>\u201d Fontenot said.<\/p>\n

LSU AgCenter agents say spraying has begun to thin the hordes pushed out of marshes by the storm that made landfall Aug. 27.<\/p>\n

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Strange Sounds – September 11, 2020 Experts in southwest Louisiana say clouds of mosquitoes have been so thick since Hurricane Laura that they\u2019re killing cattle and horses. According to first estimates, hundreds of cattle and a few horses have been killed in a five-parish area in southwest Louisiana. Veterinarian Craig Fontenot of Ville Platte says … Continue reading Giant clouds of mosquitoes are so thick since Hurricane Laura that they\u2019re killing cattle and horses in Louisiana<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[15213,36,23,15169,15214,2148,15215,2673,42],"class_list":["post-18913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pale-horse","tag-craig-fontenot","tag-disaster","tag-epidemic","tag-hurricane-laura","tag-jeremy-hebert","tag-louisiana","tag-lsu-agcenter","tag-mosquitoes","tag-outbreak"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4V3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18915,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913\/revisions\/18915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}