{"id":3912,"date":"2022-05-02T15:53:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=3912"},"modified":"2022-05-02T15:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:59:45","slug":"eyes-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2022\/05\/02\/eyes-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes Plus."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The arrangement of a spider&#8217;s eyes can be a valuable identification feature, wolf spiders have eight, arranged in three rows of four, two, and two. One photo can&#8217;t show them all, so here are two shots of the big individual still very much at home in the strawberry patch, spending many of the daylight hours sunning itself at the burrow entrance.<\/p>\n<p>Showing the first two rows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/eyes2.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"688\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One eye of the third row.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/eyes3.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"519\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From a big one to a small one, a Holoplatys jumper, pity about the background.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/holoplat.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"897\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Hakea laurina is in full flower and producing nectar for birds and insects. This little Boatman Fly, genus Pognortalis has been taking advantage, note the globule of nectar which it is apparently concentrating in a manner similar to some bees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/boatman1.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And on the Omeo Gum a cluster of green lacewing eggs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix31\/eggs.jpg\" width=\"702\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrangement of a spider&#8217;s eyes can be a valuable identification feature, wolf spiders have eight, arranged in three rows of four, two, and two. One photo can&#8217;t show them all, so here are two shots of the big individual still very much at home in the strawberry patch, spending many of the daylight hours &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2022\/05\/02\/eyes-plus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eyes Plus.<\/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-3912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912","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=3912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3919,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions\/3919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}