{"id":17122,"date":"2019-06-05T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T21:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17122"},"modified":"2019-06-07T09:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T13:21:17","slug":"orchard-spider-leucauge-venusta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17122","title":{"rendered":"Orchard Spider (<em>Leucauge venusta<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17124\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190605_166142.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17124\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190605_166142-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Orchard Spider (Leucauge venusta)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17124\" data-wp-pid=\"17124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190605_166142-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190605_166142-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190605_166142-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190605_166142-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190605_166142-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190605_166142.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orchard Spider (<em>Leucauge venusta<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re moving from the flowers-of-spring period into the insects-of-summer. Along with the insects come those creatures that prey on them, most notably the spiders and related creatures. Of course, birds, bats, and even other insects prey on insects, but I have a special fascination with spiders. They are not, I am led to believe, universally admired. I suppose I understand that. Nevertheless, I think they are quite beautiful, at least some of them are. This is <em>Leucauge venusta<\/em>, the orchard orbweaver, and a common resident in our area. It&#8217;s so delicate and looks like it could be made of glass. It&#8217;s been said that you are never more then six feet from a spider. Even if that&#8217;s not literally true, it&#8217;s probably mostly true. Sleep well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re moving from the flowers-of-spring period into the insects-of-summer. Along with the insects come those creatures that prey on them, most notably the spiders and related creatures. Of course, birds, bats, and even other insects prey on insects, but I have a special fascination with spiders. They are not, I am led to believe, universally &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17122\">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":[1167,118,1760,1759,72,202,1762,1761,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17122"}],"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=17122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17126,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17122\/revisions\/17126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}