{"id":36059,"date":"2024-01-03T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=36059"},"modified":"2024-01-02T22:44:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T03:44:10","slug":"just-once-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/01\/just-once-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Just once, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So with the new year we have a new weekly topic, which I really just decided on yesterday<strong>:<\/strong> &#8216;Just once,&#8217; featuring the various species that I have only photographed once (so far) in the 15 year span of the blog, and perhaps even longer as I dig out some of the older digital or even slide images. The slides are a little harder because I can&#8217;t search through that database as easily as the post entries &#8211; I already have an SQL query for finding single-use tags that is intended for <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/01\/tag-me-with-a-spoon\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">other uses<\/a>, but works quite fine for this too.<\/p>\n<p>To begin with, we&#8217;ll go with a spider species that had a little serendipitous backstory, from 2012<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pearly2.jpg\" alt=\"likely Euryopis funebris, female, in studio setting\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pearly2.jpg 730w, https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pearly2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pearly1.jpg\" alt=\"likely Euryopis funebris, female, in studio setting\" width=\"400\" height=\"462\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9195\" \/>That year, I was routinely examining the dog fennel plants in the yard because they hosted numerous species, and I was collecting photos of the entire life cycle of ladybird\/ladybug beetles. I did a couple of casual photos of a small black spider, not thinking too much of it, but upon unloading the memory card and examining the images in detail, I noticed that the grey markings on the abdomen seemed to reflect the flash in a semi-iridescent manner, looking a little like mother-of-pearl. I went back out for more detailed photos, and spooked the spider off before I could get better shots, unable to find it again.<\/p>\n<p>I returned the next night to try again and never found the species, so I did a few other shots and set it aside for a later attempt. But back inside at the computer, I felt something walking on my arm and there it was, this tiny little thing &#8211; I can only assume I brushed against the particular stem that it was on and it tagged along for the ride. Considering that the body didn&#8217;t top 4mm in length, that&#8217;s pretty serendipitous, but I was happy to take advantage, and did a few studio shots (seen here) before returning it to the dog fennel plants.<\/p>\n<p>This is likely an <em>Euryopis funebris<\/em>, no common name, and even that identification is questionable because the only source that I had for a match <em>also<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/251684\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">considered it questionable<\/a>. Not ever finding it again, even on the same plant, wasn&#8217;t <em>too<\/em> surprising, considering the size and the fact that only a close examination (remember, 4mm) would reveal the characteristic abdominal markings. But I would <em>like<\/em> to find it again, because who wouldn&#8217;t want to see more images of a blinged-up spider? Why, exactly, does a spider have a flashy ass to begin with? I can&#8217;t bring to mind any evolutionary advantage to this, but then again, I only have four eyes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So with the new year we have a new weekly topic, which I really just decided on yesterday: &#8216;Just once,&#8217; featuring the various species that I have only photographed once (so far) in the 15 year span of the blog, and perhaps even longer as I dig out some of the older digital or even [&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":[1452],"class_list":["post-36059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-euryopis-funebris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36059","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=36059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}