{"id":30763,"date":"2021-06-22T16:28:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T23:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30763"},"modified":"2021-06-22T19:34:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T02:34:43","slug":"crabbing-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30763","title":{"rendered":"Crabbing season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The crabbing season has begun, so I went crabbing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I am not talking about the crabs found in oceans, but the crab spiders found here (and elsewhere).<\/p>\n<p>A crab spider is an ambush predator that waits patiently on a flower for its meal to arrive. Sooner or later, a pollinator &#8212; bee, fly, or ant &#8212; arrives at the flower. The spider then grabs the prey with its front legs and delivers a deadly dose of venom through its fangs. The venom\u2019s effects are twofold: It paralyzes the insect, and it digests the insect\u2019s insides. The spider then uses its fangs like a straw to drink the insect\u2019s pre-digested insides.<\/p>\n<p>Around here, daisies are favourite hangouts for crab spiders, however they are seen waiting for visitors on other flowers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the morning a female crab spider (<i>Misumena vatia<\/i>) was stalking prey from a daisy. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30764\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/crabspider210621cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, on a different daisy, a crab spider was feasting on a (mining?) bee. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30765\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/crabspider210621bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The crabbing season has begun, so I went crabbing.\u00a0 Mind you, I am not talking about the crabs found in oceans, but the crab spiders found here (and elsewhere). A crab spider is an ambush predator that waits patiently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30763\">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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30763","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=30763"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30771,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30763\/revisions\/30771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}