{"id":598672,"date":"2026-04-22T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/598672\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:31:07","slug":"hundreds-of-mothballs-scattered-on-st-pete-beach-wildlife-officials-are-investigating-tampa-bay-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/598672\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of mothballs scattered on St. Pete Beach. Wildlife officials are investigating &#8211; Tampa Bay Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiwFBVV95cUxNSlJyNjZ4ZkRxS2R5M0gtZkJTcVlQVHhiOFNyeFNDYWNRX1ZxeFo3eXNJN1pyYjZRcm5wb2VuVzhZdmRkWTBzOGctSjl6MjZzYjRwSjNpQmh0dzJlZWNjSEJhOXB1b0RvaGJsRkhGWk9Id3RHc3k1cHBQTTVtclMxYTN2cUdFR1dPS1k0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hundreds of mothballs scattered on St. Pete Beach. Wildlife officials are investigating<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Tampa Bay Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMizwFBVV95cUxQdDd4TEdNT1ZwV1NEenI0cUNteVEwZTJTUDRjZkdZRWJWZlB3bGtPV2RGbHhxZkpKR21pczBZNFowbVM0UENVR3Jtc1M4Y2JKWjhUcWFUd0xkdEdJZy1zUFBiMFhocE9LbUh5Z2xMYkl4WXRmNEFmU2Y5WklnallxVzAweVd4MVdaQkxBUk5TZWlIR1JyS3hNamZrcGJDTDFRWk5ORUVWZGItdDJMTl9XVzlDUEdfeHJDeVFaQTdVcXUzeS13ckdCbURrMlRXNVU?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FWC investigating after hundreds of mothballs illegally placed on St. Pete Beach<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;wtsp.com<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiswFBVV95cUxNVGM0UU92WG9IdVZ2LUtrVWZrRVNaVXR5TXJiRjVGU2NHWDdBOU5HbE9tNW9VcHpIRHJKLTBfWWVsQkNySU1hSk1XT1ZzMUpGOFNpSDlQYUJJVlRpbnRSZHF3YnM2cUEtdlhtVXJ4eDBUaXFQMS1VbkdWQVhoUno5NW1UTm9OVGoyYTB4Wk03dTFnejBGaTAzUld5b2pYLUZHSldWanY4TnlObXZJa1FVSG10cw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida investigating St. Pete Beach mothball mystery<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Axios<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqAFBVV95cUxOS1JkWFRfRmRNOUFMR2ZrME0xUGhSSm15N2hiRHlGWlhhdk93WG1venZISnhFNEtkNFRXU0d0OGctdWlhbkU5Y19oSC1iOXlhcHMxdVhidTl0QnFsVnlGeEpud2w2QWRlOVdsNlpyek1iVDloZXQ1c3lUSm5kY2NONDljbjdNcUpRWUpjME84a2djeGFicWVON1AxUm5UTlgxb3VuOERkcnjSAa4BQVVfeXFMT09VZDBkUkJtanlybmUzUXJzVjFuUUZJUFNFd3htLVphVGZId19WSTdORTljTVB1Z04tSVRvUW82akR3cDNTbTQtMExSU3dnQmZMY0lMWVRicTVXeWpiUFVxN0tRSnpZUDFSUEpsSW1OQm81ejQ1a1NyTkVOTG9YajIyNldTUVhlZDBYTHBxZGw0MEFPeHFjWmY1RzUyTFE3alhuc3pXenNnUkhIZFR3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hundreds of mothballs found on St Pete Beach, FWC investigating<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;WFLA<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqAFBVV95cUxPUE5pT1B5eEJ0YVlVVTlEZ1ZkZngtd2hpRGVSSWVVZkpPQUVhY0hPTEs1dml0RGdCYU1hRE1SMXZmVjY4VlJSS3YxZzVvZXdVTjU4ek9KUlUzb1EzS1F4b09fa196M3c4Q3JxSnQ2WGRieERzNG80Qnk0TnE5dW9ZUWVtbUVHdnd5ZW9oVUZoTDhpVXRieXBuT2dzZFg4RVZtMkdURF9LYlI?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Volunteers clean up toxic mothballs left on St. Pete Beach<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Tampa Bay 28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of mothballs scattered on St. Pete Beach. Wildlife officials are investigating&nbsp;&nbsp;Tampa Bay TimesFWC investigating after hundreds of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,203,205,17932,202,17930,54739,201],"class_list":["post-598672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-section-environment","tag-section-florida","tag-section-hillsborough","tag-section-news","tag-section-pinellas","tag-section-tampa","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598672","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=598672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}