{"id":2254,"date":"2019-10-22T02:33:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T02:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2019-10-22T02:33:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T02:33:51","slug":"maratus-plumosus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2019\/10\/22\/maratus-plumosus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maratus plumosus."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wander in the box\/ironbark bush looking for orchids was disappointing with little found, so the emphasis changed to seeking jumping spiders. The Blue-thighed Peacock Spider, Maratus plumosus\u00a0 frequents the dry litter beside a rough track, and although it was still a little early for them, two males and a female were discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Male.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/plumosus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/plumosusb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"566\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Female.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/female2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/female2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"515\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/female.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/femaleb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"523\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second male was tiny, barely 3 mm long.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/small1b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"868\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/small2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"868\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/male3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/male3b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"524\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Horizontal pictures will enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wander in the box\/ironbark bush looking for orchids was disappointing with little found, so the emphasis changed to seeking jumping spiders. The Blue-thighed Peacock Spider, Maratus plumosus\u00a0 frequents the dry litter beside a rough track, and although it was still a little early for them, two males and a female were discovered. Male. Female. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2019\/10\/22\/maratus-plumosus-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maratus plumosus.<\/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-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","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=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}