{"id":20535,"date":"2017-07-13T13:11:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T17:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=20535"},"modified":"2017-07-13T13:11:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T17:11:55","slug":"scooped-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/07\/scooped-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Scooped again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to do this just to harass the <a href=\"http:\/\/albuggphotos.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Importunate Mr Bugg<\/a>, who was with me on the outing this morning and often brags that he&#8217;s going to post something first.<\/p>\n<p>We (well, <em>I<\/em>) spotted a fishing spider, genus <em>Dolomedes<\/em>, on a rock and went in for the closeup, but noticed in the bright light that it had a bizarre patch of web that it sat across. Fishers don&#8217;t make webs <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2014\/10\/gorilla-in-the-mist\/\" target=\"_blank\">except for their egg sac<\/a>, and that may only be some species, so it seemed odd<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/EnoFisher1.jpg\" alt=\"fishing spider Dolomedes on rock at water&#039;s edge\" width=\"730\" height=\"806\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20536\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I could see that it had something else in there, probably prey that it was working on, so I went back to shore to affix the macro rig and do a bit more controlled lighting, rather than working with natural bright sunlight as above. And it made a distinct difference, not just in the apparent light direction, but in the details as well<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/EnoFisher3.jpg\" alt=\"fishing spider Dolomedes with dragonfly prey\" width=\"730\" height=\"599\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20539\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Ah, that&#8217;s it! What we took to be webbing was actually the wings of a dragonfly that was being consumed by the spider, seen at an odd angle. And since it was a big dragonfly, you get an impression of how big the spider was, too. Far from the largest I&#8217;ve seen, but not something you want to find in the bathtub, you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to do this just to harass the Importunate Mr Bugg, who was with me on the outing this morning and often brags that he&#8217;s going to post something first. We (well, I) spotted a fishing spider, genus Dolomedes, on a rock and went in for the closeup, but noticed in the bright light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[656,3913,2459,659,51],"class_list":["post-20535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-dolomedes","tag-down-low-too-quick","tag-dragonfly","tag-fishing-spider","tag-macro-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}