{"id":17419,"date":"2019-07-31T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17419"},"modified":"2019-08-09T09:52:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T13:52:27","slug":"gasteracantha-cancriformis-spinybacked-orbweaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17419","title":{"rendered":"<em>Gasteracantha cancriformis<\/em> (Spinybacked Orbweaver)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17421\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190731_168198.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17421\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190731_168198-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Gasteracantha cancriformis (Spinybacked Orbweaver)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17421\" data-wp-pid=\"17421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190731_168198-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190731_168198-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190731_168198-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190731_168198-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190731_168198-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190731_168198.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Gasteracantha cancriformis<\/em> (Spinybacked Orbweaver)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I drove to the east end of Ocean Isle this morning and walked on the beach, looking for shells and coral and I took a few pictures. The other day we had noticed a boardwalk going into the scrub off of one of the back streets and we decided to see where it led. from the corner of e 4 sup th \/sup and winston-salem streets we followed a combination of boardwalks (over wet areas) and sandy trails that go as far as Charlotte Street (although we didn&#8217;t actually go all the way to the end). We saw three species of spider. There were lots of these spinybacked orbweavers (<em>Gasteracantha cancriformis<\/em>). We also saw a golden-silk orbweaver (<em>Nephila clavipes<\/em>) and a black-and-yellow argiope (<em>Argiope aurantia<\/em>). I also got a pretty nice photo of a slant-faced grasshopper (Subfamily Gomphocerinae). It was hot but there were occasional breezes and it was mostly shady, so we enjoyed it pretty well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I drove to the east end of Ocean Isle this morning and walked on the beach, looking for shells and coral and I took a few pictures. The other day we had noticed a boardwalk going into the scrub off of one of the back streets and we decided to see where it &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17419\">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":[6],"tags":[1167,118,1877,1875,1874,202,177,1876],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17419"}],"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=17419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17426,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17419\/revisions\/17426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}