{"id":3194,"date":"2010-10-28T14:49:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2010-10-28T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T19:05:14","slug":"conch-shell-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/28\/conch-shell-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Conch Shell Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Bonita<\/a>

Live Fighting conch photo by Carla Barone<\/p><\/div>\n

Just in time for Halloween…. The Invasion of the Fighting Conchs! Ooooh. Scary!<\/p>\n

I didn’t make it down to Bonita Beach to see the beached FIGHTING \u00a0CONCH<\/a><\/strong> phenomenon that I posted about yesterday (click HERE<\/a><\/strong> to go to that post) but our blog buddy Carla took great photos of \u00a0the beach littered with these seashells. We still don’t know why there are so many dying but they are testing the water so when\/if we find out, I’ll keep you posted. I’m hoping the answer is what Dr. Jose Leal quoted in the article yesterday “It could be mating”.<\/p>\n

\"Conchs<\/a>

Conchs at Little Hickory photo by Carla Barone<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Little<\/a>

Pile of fighting conchs photo by Carla Barone<\/p><\/div>\n

Shellers wait for great days when there are piles of shells on the beach… but maybe not like this. It seems so sad. Carla said “They were piled up at the jetty’s today~100’s of them. I have seen days when they were stranded before but not piled up like that~sad…and stinky too<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

\"Little<\/a>

Little Hickory conchs photo by Carla Barone<\/p><\/div>\n

Thank you Carla for showing us your photos. I’m just happy we didn’t have to smell them- no “scratch ‘n sniff” thank goodness.<\/p>\n

\"Little<\/a>

Fighting conchs photo by Carla Barone<\/p><\/div>\n

I checked out the beach\u00a0to see if there was anything like it\u00a0on Captiva today at Blind Pass. Nothing like Carla saw but there are some shells rolling in and the water is fabulous!<\/p>\n

\"Captiva<\/a>

Captiva's Blind Pass sand bar showing<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Collecting<\/a>

Betsy (Unionville, PA) not disappointed in the shelling<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Shells<\/a>

Shelling at Blind Pass<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just in time for Halloween…. The Invasion of the Fighting Conchs! Ooooh. Scary! I didn’t make it down to Bonita Beach to see the beached FIGHTING \u00a0CONCH phenomenon that I posted about yesterday (click HERE to go to that post) but our blog buddy Carla took great photos of \u00a0the beach littered with these seashells. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,276,3,11,46],"tags":[2049,2116,624,2048,556,411,621,444,609,623,622,625,2082,71,80],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blind-pass","category-bonita-beach","category-captiva","category-conch","category-fighting-conch","tag-blind-pass","tag-bonita-beach","tag-bonita-springs","tag-captiva","tag-dr-jose-leal","tag-fighting-conchs","tag-halloween","tag-island","tag-jetty","tag-little-hickory","tag-phenomenon","tag-rocks","tag-seashells","tag-shelling","tag-shells","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-Pw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3206,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}