{"id":17373,"date":"2016-06-04T06:35:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T13:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17373"},"modified":"2016-06-04T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T16:28:00","slug":"crab-spider-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17373","title":{"rendered":"Crab spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Crab spiders (<i>Misumena vatia<\/i>) hang out on flowers where they wait to pounce on pollinating insects. I noticed my first\u00a0Crab Spider a decade ago when it was hunting on a Tiger Lily: see the last picture at <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/wildflowers\/reddish\/index.html\">reddish wildflowers<\/a>. Since that time, I have seen them mainly on daisies: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=114\">watching crab spiders<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10877\">yellow crab spider<\/a>. \u00a0Yesterday, I again saw a crab spider on a Tiger Lily. Alerted by that sighting, I examined local Daisies where I spotted some more.<\/p>\n<p>A crab spider on the outside of a Tiger Lily was waiting to pounce on prey. When a perceived threat, a photographer, passed by, the spider hid inside.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17375\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tigerlillyspider160602s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having seen a crab spider on a Tiger Lily, I then scoured local Daisies.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17374\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/crabspider160603s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Crab spiders (Misumena vatia) hang out on flowers where they wait to pounce on pollinating insects. I noticed my first\u00a0Crab Spider a decade ago when it was hunting on a Tiger Lily: see the last picture at reddish wildflowers. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17373\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17373"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17398,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17373\/revisions\/17398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}