{"id":207,"date":"2012-02-24T11:07:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/207-366-days-of-2012-day-55-eensie-weensie-predator.html"},"modified":"2012-02-27T10:45:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T00:15:39","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-55-eensie-weensie-predator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/207-366-days-of-2012-day-55-eensie-weensie-predator.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 55 &#8211;  Eensie Weensie Predator"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:433 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"483\" height=\"720\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_8388.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not the beautiful reflection in the glass that has captured this little jumping spider&#8217;s attention. It&#8217;s the moth safely on the other side.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI watched this little spider for quite some time as he stalked around in circles, dumbfounded as to the the reason the moth kept eluding him. I was half tempted to help him out for the sake of a photo and as he must be quite hungry given the shrunken size of his abdomen. At least the little moth is safe for today.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA brief attempt to identify him in nearly 5000 species of jumping spiders in Australia was overwhelming. Perhaps the genus <em>Hasarius<\/em> and wild guess at <em>Hasarius adansoni<\/em> (Adanson&#8217;s House Jumper). I could be lucky! ;-).<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHave a look for yourself at <a href=\"http:\/\/ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl\/australian\/salticidae\/Salticidae.html\" title=\"Salticidae, Jumping Spiders\" target=\"_blank\">Salticidae, Jumping Spiders<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;366 Days of 2012, Day 55 &#8211;  Eensie Weensie Predator&#8217;. 1\/200 sec at 200mm (macro) f\/25, ISO 400 + Strobe<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the beautiful reflection in the glass that has captured this little jumping spider&#8217;s attention. It&#8217;s the moth safely on the other side. I watched this little spider for quite some time as he stalked around in circles, dumbfounded as to the the reason the moth kept eluding him. I was half tempted to &#8230; <a title=\"366 Days of 2012, Day 55 &#8211;  Eensie Weensie Predator\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/207-366-days-of-2012-day-55-eensie-weensie-predator.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about 366 Days of 2012, Day 55 &#8211;  Eensie Weensie Predator\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}