{"id":12947,"date":"2017-09-15T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12947"},"modified":"2017-09-21T07:30:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T12:30:01","slug":"leucauge-venusta-orchard-orbweaver-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12947","title":{"rendered":"<em>Leucauge venusta<\/em> (Orchard Orbweaver)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12949\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170915_146654.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12949\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170915_146654-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Leucauge venusta (Orchard Orbweaver)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12949\" data-wp-pid=\"12949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170915_146654-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170915_146654-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170915_146654-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170915_146654-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170915_146654-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170915_146654.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Leucauge venusta<\/em> (Orchard Orbweaver)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had a meeting in one of the other buildings on campus this afternoon. I took my camera with me, as I often do, and went into the woods between the buildings on my way back. Below the pond there is a stream and to the side of that, an old settling pond that&#8217;s almost completely silted up. The water isn&#8217;t more than six inches deep although I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if the soft mud is another foot deep below that. I walked along the side of that and took a few pictures of a red cardinal flower (<em>Lobelia cardinalis <\/em>) before spotting this little spider, and orchard orbweaver (<em>Leucauge venusta<\/em>). I managed to get down onto the ground without getting too wet and got a few pictures, although a tripod would have been a big help. These are pretty little things and of course they eat things that I don&#8217;t particularly like. So they&#8217;re my friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a meeting in one of the other buildings on campus this afternoon. I took my camera with me, as I often do, and went into the woods between the buildings on my way back. Below the pond there is a stream and to the side of that, an old settling pond that&#8217;s almost &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12947\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[118,202,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12950,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions\/12950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}