{"id":8741,"date":"2015-08-13T16:47:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8741"},"modified":"2015-08-19T22:04:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T03:04:25","slug":"mecynogea-lemniscata-basilica-orbweaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8741","title":{"rendered":"<em>Mecynogea lemniscata<\/em> (Basilica Orbweaver)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8745\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150813_110590.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8745\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150813_110590-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Mecynogea lemniscata (Basilica Orbweaver)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8745\" data-wp-pid=\"8745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150813_110590-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150813_110590-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150813_110590-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150813_110590-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150813_110590-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150813_110590.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Mecynogea lemniscata<\/em> (Basilica Orbweaver)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is one of the many (3,500 species worldwide, with 180 occurring north of Mexico) orbweaver spiders. It&#8217;s hard to tell from this angle, but a picture I got of her back shows me pretty conclusively that this is a Basilica Orbweaver (<em>Mecynogea lemniscata<\/em>). I came upon it in the woods next to my office. Fortunately I saw the web before I walked into it. I hate it when that happens, especially with spiders as large as this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the many (3,500 species worldwide, with 180 occurring north of Mexico) orbweaver spiders. It&#8217;s hard to tell from this angle, but a picture I got of her back shows me pretty conclusively that this is a Basilica Orbweaver (Mecynogea lemniscata). I came upon it in the woods next to my office. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8741\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741"}],"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=8741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8765,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions\/8765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}