{"id":8176,"date":"2013-06-25T16:59:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T23:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8176"},"modified":"2013-06-25T16:59:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T23:59:03","slug":"crab-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8176","title":{"rendered":"Crab spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Around here, up to one percent of the daisies play host to a crab spider (<i>Misumena vatia<\/i>). These spiders will hunt from other flowers, but daisies seem to be a local favourite. Camouflaged\u00a0to the colour of the petals, they sit and wait for a fly or bee, grab it with their front legs, paralyze it with\u00a0venom,\u00a0and then suck it dry. The spider will hunt from the same daisy day after day; these were seen this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A female crab spider waits on the petals of daisy for prey. Its front four legs are longer than others and are used for grabbing the\u00a0victim and holding it until the poison from the spider&#8217;s fangs takes effect.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8178\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/crabspider130625ds.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\">On a different daisy, a smaller crab spider is consuming a fly.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8177\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/crabspider130625es.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come into my arms.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8179\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/crabspider130625bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Around here, up to one percent of the daisies play host to a crab spider (Misumena vatia). These spiders will hunt from other flowers, but daisies seem to be a local favourite. Camouflaged\u00a0to the colour of the petals, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8176\">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-8176","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\/8176","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=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8184,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions\/8184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}