{"id":197021,"date":"2025-12-22T21:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/197021\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T21:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:40:11","slug":"port-st-johns-hit-by-invasion-of-mysterious-white-millipedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/197021\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St Johns hit by invasion of mysterious white millipedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Environmental experts and specialists, including from Walter Sisulu University, have been dispatched to Port St Johns following an invasion of millipedes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities have described the situation as unprecedented, as the millipedes were white in colour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Concerned OR Tambo district municipal bosses, meanwhile, have urged residents to remain calm and not use harmful chemicals to try to repel the crawling creatures from their households.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OR Tambo municipal spokesperson Ncebakazi Kolwane said on Thursday the matter was receiving urgent attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Daily Dispatch <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environmental experts and specialists, including from Walter Sisulu University, have been dispatched to Port St Johns following an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[121643,121633,121640,121648,121642,121649,121634,121632,121638,121635,111,139,69,121644,121637,121651,121639,147,121631,121641,121636,121646,121645,121647,121650,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-197021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-chemical-safety-millipede-infestation","9":"tag-chemical-safety-millipede-invasion","10":"tag-climate-impact-on-millipedes","11":"tag-environmental-assessment-millipedes","12":"tag-environmental-triggers-millipedes","13":"tag-millipede-infestation-eastern-cape","14":"tag-millipede-infestation-public-health","15":"tag-millipede-infestation-response","16":"tag-millipede-invasion-eastern-cape","17":"tag-millipede-species-identification","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-or-tambo-district-millipedes","22":"tag-or-tambo-municipality-millipedes","23":"tag-port-st-johns-millipede-invasion","24":"tag-public-health-millipede-safety","25":"tag-science","26":"tag-traditional-beliefs-millipedes","27":"tag-traditional-beliefs-unusual-creatures","28":"tag-unprecedented-millipede-invasion","29":"tag-unprecedented-millipede-outbreak","30":"tag-walter-sisulu-university-environmental-study","31":"tag-walter-sisulu-university-millipedes","32":"tag-white-millipedes-south-africa","33":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}