{"id":487179,"date":"2026-02-24T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487179\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:13:08","slug":"national-invasive-species-awareness-week-spotlights-northern-snakehead-in-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487179\/","title":{"rendered":"National Invasive Species Awareness Week spotlights Northern Snakehead in Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is National Invasive Species Awareness Week across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1CKh4aoMCB\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Missouri Department of Conservation <\/a>highlighted the Northern Snakehead fish as one of the state&#8217;s newest invasive species. <\/p>\n<p>This species is known for outcompeting and eating native fish, according to a press release. <\/p>\n<p>Conservationists noted that although the Snakehead looks like the native Brownfin fish, these invaders can breathe air and survive out of water for several days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is National Invasive Species Awareness Week across the U.S. The Missouri Department of Conservation highlighted the Northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-487179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}