{"id":2208,"date":"2019-10-06T03:01:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2019-10-06T23:25:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T23:25:03","slug":"spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2019\/10\/06\/spiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiders."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the weather warming a few spiders are showing up, including the first Two-tailed Spiders, Tamopsis species well camouflaged on the garden trees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/tamopsis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/tamopsisb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"705\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Male and female.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/tamopsis2c.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"1122\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Out on the rail trail these two small orb weavers, Araneus species were found unusually in plain view on top of Scaly Buttons, Leptorhynchos squamatus.<\/p>\n<p>Male.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/spider1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/spider1b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"774\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Female.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/spider2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/spider2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"806\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A day or two later the female was still in the same situation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/spider.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/spiderb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"697\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three jumpers\u00a0 prowling in the garden, Hypoblemum scutulatum.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/jumper.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"555\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An Opisthoncus species.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/aga1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"817\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Opisthoncus necator.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/shiny.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/shiny2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/shiny2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"508\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/face.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/faceb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"509\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And to conclude, a very neat entry web in a garden tree.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders\/web.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"838\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Some images will enlarge.<br \/>\nReference and further reading,<br \/>\nR Whyte,<br \/>\nA Field Guide To Spiders Of Australia.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the weather warming a few spiders are showing up, including the first Two-tailed Spiders, Tamopsis species well camouflaged on the garden trees. Male and female. Out on the rail trail these two small orb weavers, Araneus species were found unusually in plain view on top of Scaly Buttons, Leptorhynchos squamatus. Male. Female. A day &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2019\/10\/06\/spiders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spiders.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}