{"id":4044,"date":"2013-01-04T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T13:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=4044"},"modified":"2013-01-04T14:24:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T13:24:31","slug":"spiders-weaving-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=4044","title":{"rendered":"Spiders Weaving Spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/super-spider.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4045\" title=\"super-spider\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/super-spider-440x330.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/super-spider-440x330.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/super-spider-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/super-spider.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Peru have discovered what they think may be a new species of\u00a0spider which\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/12\/spider-building-spider\/\">uses twigs and dead insects to build decoy spiders to trick predators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Afterward, Torres returned to the trails near the research center. Only within a roughly 1-square-mile area near the floodplain did Torres find more spider-building spiders &#8212; about 25 of them. &#8220;They could be quite locally restricted,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But for all I know, there&#8217;s millions of them in the forest beyond.&#8221; The spiders&#8217; webs were crafted around face-height, near the trail, and about the width of a stretched-out hand. Some of the decoys placed in the webs looked rather realistic. Others resembled something more like a cartoon octopus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Peru have discovered what they think may be a new species of\u00a0spider which\u00a0uses twigs and dead insects to build decoy spiders to trick predators. Afterward, Torres returned to the trails near the research center. Only within a roughly 1-square-mile area near the floodplain did Torres find more spider-building spiders &#8212; about 25 of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,100],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-4044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-science","tag-spiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}