{"id":25810,"date":"2025-12-20T01:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=25810"},"modified":"2025-12-20T01:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:18:34","slug":"i-found-something-strange-in-the-yard-white-round-balls-i-was-horrified-when-i-realized-what-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=25810","title":{"rendered":"I found something strange in the yard \u2013 white, round balls: I was horrified when I realized what it was"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While weeding my garden, I noticed a cluster of tiny white, jelly-like balls in the soil. At first, I thought they were debris, but their smooth, squishy texture made me uneasy. After looking them up, I realized they were snail eggs\u2014dozens at once, capable of turning into a full infestation within weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worse, I learned some snail eggs can carry harmful parasites. I quickly removed them and poured boiling water over the area, a common gardener\u2019s solution. Now I always double-check anything unusual in the soil\u2014it\u2019s a reminder of how surprising (and sneaky) nature can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While weeding my garden, I noticed a cluster of tiny white, jelly-like balls in the soil. At first, I thought they were debris, but their smooth, squishy&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":545,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25812,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25810\/revisions\/25812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}