{"id":4808,"date":"2026-09-19T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=4808"},"modified":"2026-09-19T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:34:10","slug":"spring-26-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2026\/09\/19\/spring-26-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring &#8217;26 #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully, seem to be seeing more creatures in the garden this season. A second Tamopsis was spotted on the white bark of a red gum, and was then very hard to find on returning with the camera. Finally found this master of camouflage, it had moved to a darker spot where it was almost invisible, click to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden16\/tamopsis2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden16\/tamopsis2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"730\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dead sugar ants pointed to this little fellow, Euryopis umbilicata, the Superb Ant-eating Spider.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden16\/antsp.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"497\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A tiny case moth dwelling, less than a centimetre long.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden16\/case.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"582\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully, seem to be seeing more creatures in the garden this season. A second Tamopsis was spotted on the white bark of a red gum, and was then very hard to find on returning with the camera. Finally found this master of camouflage, it had moved to a darker spot where it was almost invisible, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2026\/09\/19\/spring-26-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring &#8217;26 #2<\/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-4808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808","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=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4812,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}