{"id":5765,"date":"2012-07-03T10:37:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T17:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2012-07-03T10:37:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T17:37:50","slug":"spider-deception-pays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5765","title":{"rendered":"Spider deception pays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The crab spider\u00a0(<em>Misumena vatia<\/em>)\u00a0lives by deception. On a yellow flower, it turns yellow; on a white flower, it turns white. In this way, it is camouflaged as it awaits pollinators.<\/p>\n<p>So, how will it present itself when on a daisy? This is a compound flower made up of yellow disk flowers and white ray flowers? Can the spider be both white and yellow at the same time? It seems the answer is that it always makes itself white and sits on the ray flowers (the parts that looks like petals). Yet, as these pictures suggest, it completes its disguise by dabbing itself with some of the yellow pollen.<\/p>\n<p>This crab spider is sitting on the white ray flowers, but seems to have used its pedipalps to dab some yellow pollen on itself so as to entice a pollinator. That is really a nice trick.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5767\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/crabspider120628s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the same daisy and same spider but it has now caught a fly. Its dual deception pays.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5766\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/crabspider120629s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The crab spider\u00a0(Misumena vatia)\u00a0lives by deception. On a yellow flower, it turns yellow; on a white flower, it turns white. In this way, it is camouflaged as it awaits pollinators. So, how will it present itself when on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5765\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-5765","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\/5765","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=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5777,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions\/5777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}