{"id":37024,"date":"2024-06-14T00:10:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T04:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=37024"},"modified":"2024-06-14T00:10:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T04:10:15","slug":"disqualified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/06\/disqualified\/","title":{"rendered":"Disqualified"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of last night, I had to remove one of the potential ‘Just Once’ candidates from the lineup, because… well, you figure it out.<\/p>\n

\"Rhomphaea
This was one of the original images from its one appearance;<\/strong> it’s a Rhomphaea fictilium<\/em>, no common name to my knowledge, and it’s a spider with a couple of curious traits, which I wrote about in the original post<\/a>. But then last night, I found this guy ‘floating’ in the yard:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"dorsal
So, credit to the spider for being suspended right at eye-level, to make it much easier for me, but that credit goes away when I tell you that the web was only a couple of strands that weren’t well-anchored, stretching over two meters. Even on a still night, the negligent breeze was enough to move this guy several centimeters in every direction, which is pretty damn annoying when working at macro magnifications and depth – this is about the only decent frame, though I have a side view that clinches the ID with the position of the spinnerets only a third of the way along the abdomen, instead of right at the end.<\/p>\n

I was taking a break from tasks last night when I spotted it and fired off a few frames, then came back in to search the species again to confirm that I’d only featured it once;<\/strong> for some reason, I couldn’t remember “Rhomphaea fictilium” from its one use eight years ago, but we already know I’m old. Later on, I realized that I could be putting some greater effort into it, including trying to photograph or video their predatory behavior, and I went back out to collect the specimen to keep in a terrarium. Naturally, it was nowhere to be found, even with the help of a misting bottle (which at least highlights all weblines that are in the area – the one that the spider was using in my pic was gone as well.) I found plenty of other<\/em> spiders, all mostly boring, and a juvenile mantis. but no R. fictilium<\/em>. I’ll try again from time to time, but I’m not holding out much hope.<\/p>\n

The magnolia green jumper eggs<\/a> have not hatched yet though – I just checked on those tonight. I’ll try to be sure to feature pics of the bebbies when they’re around, and really should try for more video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of last night, I had to remove one of the potential ‘Just Once’ candidates from the lineup, because… well, you figure it out. This was one of the original images from its one appearance; it’s a Rhomphaea fictilium, no common name to my knowledge, and it’s a spider with a couple of curious traits, […]<\/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":[3418],"class_list":["post-37024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-rhomphaea-fictilium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37024","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=37024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}