{"id":2904,"date":"2020-12-10T09:03:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T22:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2020-12-10T09:03:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T22:03:34","slug":"more-spider-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2020\/12\/10\/more-spider-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"More Spider Stuff."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two female Hypoblemums to begin, first Hypoblemum scutulatum.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders2\/hypofem.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"780\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Face on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders2\/face.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"511\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hypoblemum griseum, this female has prey, possibly a smaller jumping spider.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders2\/prey.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The garden red gums are strongholds of small spiders in the Theridiidae family, the first image shows a female with a clutch of spiderlings, click to enlarge. The second shows another individual at her retreat of a loose piece of bark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders2\/spiderlings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders2\/spiderlingsb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"573\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders2\/therid.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"827\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An orb weaver nicely camouflaged also at its loose bark daytime retreat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders2\/retreat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders2\/retreatb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rotary clothes hoist is a popular base from which orb weavers suspend their webs. With a camouflaged retreat hard to find this peg was the best option.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders2\/orb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"596\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flatties like to stay close to their crack homes, like this Holoplatys species.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders2\/flat1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"877\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not so Helpis minitibunda, a widely roaming jumper.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders2\/helpis.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"816\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Opisthoncus necator has become quite common, even to the point of hitching a ride on one&#8217;s arm where it found the going fairly difficult. Click to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders2\/necator2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/spiders2\/necator2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"455\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two female Hypoblemums to begin, first Hypoblemum scutulatum. Face on. Hypoblemum griseum, this female has prey, possibly a smaller jumping spider. The garden red gums are strongholds of small spiders in the Theridiidae family, the first image shows a female with a clutch of spiderlings, click to enlarge. The second shows another individual at her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2020\/12\/10\/more-spider-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Spider Stuff.<\/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-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","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=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}