{"id":151,"date":"2023-09-11T18:16:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/?p=151"},"modified":"2023-10-17T18:11:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T17:11:44","slug":"check-a-sweet-chestnut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Check a Sweet Chestnut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With summertime drawing to a close, there&#8217;s still time to take part in the RHS \u2018Check a Sweet Chestnut\u2019 project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RHS want to know where there are healthy and unhealthy\u00a0sweet chestnuts across the UK so they can understand how far sweet chestnut blight and oriental chestnut gall wasp have spread since they were first reported. The information you provide will help us to produce an up-to-date map of healthy and unhealthy sweet chestnut trees and tell them whether their actions to control the spread of blight and gall wasp are working.<br><br>This year, between National Plant Health Week in May and National Tree Week in November, the RHS, Defra, APHA, Forest Research and Observatree invite you to submit data on sweet chestnut health to the UK tree health-reporting platform, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/treealert.forestresearch.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">TreeAlert<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full details on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhs.org.uk\/science\/help-our-research\/check-a-sweet-chestnut\">RHS Citizen Science page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With summertime drawing to a close, there&#8217;s still time to take part in the RHS \u2018Check a Sweet Chestnut\u2019 project. RHS want to know where there are healthy and unhealthy\u00a0sweet chestnuts across the UK so they can understand how far sweet chestnut blight and oriental chestnut gall wasp have spread since they were first reported. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}