{"id":7261,"date":"2012-02-26T13:56:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T18:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=7261"},"modified":"2012-02-26T13:56:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T18:56:23","slug":"too-cool-part-13-im-a-spider-raargh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2012\/02\/too-cool-part-13-im-a-spider-raargh\/","title":{"rendered":"Too cool, part 13: I&#8217;m a spider, <i>raargh!<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I have yet to obtain any images illustrating this (and because there may not even be examples of such within this country, I may not ever, <em>sniff<\/em>,) I refer you to Alex Wild of <a href=\"http:\/\/myrmecos.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Myrmecos<\/em><\/a> fame, guest-blogging on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Scientific American&#8217;s<\/em><\/a> site, for his post on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/networkedblogs.com\/ulx6E\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The fly that banks on arachnophobia.<\/strong><\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you wish, pause for a second and try to imagine how a fly might benefit from something being scared of spiders, like I did. Chances are, it&#8217;s better than you imagined. Most especially, when you see a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10150225369999372&amp;l=d164cc847e\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>different (and more appropriate) angle provided by Warren Laurde<\/strong> <\/a>in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>It all leads me to wonder, how long before spiders develop secret signs amongst themselves, like visual passwords, to flush out the imposters?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 * \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\">My competitive side tells me not to link to <em>Myrmecos<\/em>, since Alex Wild is a much better photographer than I, but the unwritten rules of the net dictate that he reciprocate, right? And if that works, I&#8217;ll be praising Canon for their MP-E 65mm soon&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I have yet to obtain any images illustrating this (and because there may not even be examples of such within this country, I may not ever, sniff,) I refer you to Alex Wild of Myrmecos fame, guest-blogging on Scientific American&#8217;s site, for his post on &#8220;The fly that banks on arachnophobia.&#8221; If you wish, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,9,46],"tags":[1136,50,1135,636,1137],"class_list":["post-7261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continued","category-nature","category-science","category-too-cool","tag-arachnophobia","tag-camouflage","tag-fruit-fly","tag-jumping-spider","tag-rhagoletis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261","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=7261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}