{"id":8822,"date":"2015-08-25T19:40:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T00:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8822"},"modified":"2015-08-27T13:55:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T18:55:29","slug":"leucauge-venusta-orchard-orbweaver-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8822","title":{"rendered":"<em>Leucauge venusta<\/em> (Orchard Orbweaver)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8824\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150825_111251.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8824\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150825_111251-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Leucauge venusta (Orchard Orbweaver)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8824\" data-wp-pid=\"8824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150825_111251-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150825_111251-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150825_111251-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150825_111251-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150825_111251-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150825_111251.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Leucauge venusta<\/em> (Orchard Orbweaver)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Almost two weeks ago, on August 13, I posted two pictures, one of which was of a basilica orbweaver spider (<a href=\"?p=8741\" target=\"_20150813\"><em>Mecynogea lemniscata<\/em><\/a>). A few people on Facebook couldn&#8217;t actually make out what it was (and those who could were generally not excited by the picture, in any case). Well, today&#8217;s picture should be easier to identify (if not to actually appreciate). This is an orchard orbweaver (<em>Leucauge venusta<\/em>). They are not as closely related as I would have guessed, belonging to different families: the basilica orbweaver is a member of family Araneidae (Orb Weavers) while the orchard orbweaver is in family Tetragnathidae (Long-jawed Orb Weavers). This one was moving from the center of her web up into the relative protection of some leaves, because I got a bit too close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost two weeks ago, on August 13, I posted two pictures, one of which was of a basilica orbweaver spider (Mecynogea lemniscata). A few people on Facebook couldn&#8217;t actually make out what it was (and those who could were generally not excited by the picture, in any case). Well, today&#8217;s picture should be easier to &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8822\">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\/8822"}],"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=8822"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8834,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions\/8834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}