{"id":8161,"date":"2015-05-12T18:38:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T23:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8161"},"modified":"2015-05-14T07:31:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T12:31:18","slug":"orchard-orbweaver-on-columbine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8161","title":{"rendered":"Orchard Orbweaver on Columbine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8163\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150512_105813.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8163\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150512_105813-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Orchard Orbweaver on Columbine\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8163\" data-wp-pid=\"8163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150512_105813-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150512_105813-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150512_105813-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150512_105813-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/img_20150512_105813.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orchard Orbweaver on Columbine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went out into the back garden to take a few pictures this afternoon. I started with some deep, orange <em>Coreopsis<\/em> that has just started to bloom. From there I moved to one of the many Columbine (<em>Aquilegia<\/em>) plants that have come up from seed from the few that we brought with us to this house in 2006. I was lying on my back, looking up into the flowers when I saw this spider, an orchard orbweaver (<em>Leucauge venusta<\/em>) one one of them. I got as close as my lens would take me and this is the result. Count me a big fan of spiders, particularly spiders in the garden, where they aren&#8217;t under foot and where they eat insects. This is one of my favorites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out into the back garden to take a few pictures this afternoon. I started with some deep, orange Coreopsis that has just started to bloom. From there I moved to one of the many Columbine (Aquilegia) plants that have come up from seed from the few that we brought with us to this &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8161\">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":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161"}],"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=8161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8170,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions\/8170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}