{"id":49324,"date":"2025-05-13T15:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=49324"},"modified":"2025-05-13T15:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:45:18","slug":"yard-work-do-wood-bug-shells-turn-white-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-do-wood-bug-shells-turn-white-after-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard work: Do wood bug shells turn white after death?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about things ones encounters in the yard: the tutor mentions wood bug shells.<\/h2>\n<p>\nYesterday, cleaning gravel along a foundation, I kept seeing white shells of deceased bugs. They looked like wood bug shells, but were white. Was I seeing the shells of an unfamiliar (to me) type of bug, can some wood bugs be white, or else what was the explanation? I looked it up.<\/p>\n<p>\nApparently, wood bug shells can turn white after death. Moreover, it seems, wood bugs molt (or moult), meaning that many of the shells I found may have been abandoned ones from which their occupants lived on.<\/p>\n<p>\nInteresting, eh?<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prairieecologist.com\/2017\/02\/22\/pill-bug-mystery\/\">prairieecologist.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pestcontrolcanada.com\/sow-bugs-pill-bugs\/\">pestcontrolcanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grammarist.com\/spelling\/molt-moult\/\">grammarist.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about things ones encounters in the yard: the tutor mentions wood bug shells. Yesterday, cleaning gravel along a foundation, I kept seeing white shells of deceased bugs. They looked like wood bug shells, but were white. Was I seeing &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-do-wood-bug-shells-turn-white-after-death\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yard work: Do wood bug shells turn white after death?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1218],"tags":[1735,1734,1733],"class_list":["post-49324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yard-work","tag-pill-bugs","tag-sow-bugs","tag-wood-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49326,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49324\/revisions\/49326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}