{"id":3086,"date":"2010-09-16T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T16:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2010-09-16T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T16:21:07","slug":"gigantic-spiders-web-discovered-in-madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/3086","title":{"rendered":"Gigantic spider&#8217;s web discovered in Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_9001000\/9001866.stm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/49126213_monitoringwebssmall.comp_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But even that web is dwarfed by those spun by Darwin&#8217;s bark spider.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They build their web with the orb suspended directly above a river or the water body of a lake, a habitat that no other spider can use,&#8221; says Professor Ingi Agnarsson, the director of the Museum of Zoology at the University of Puerto Rico, in San Juan who made the discovery with colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>That allows the spiders to catch insects flying over water, and explains why the web is so long.<\/p>\n<p>To reach from one bank to the other, the spider must weave anchoring lines of up to 25m.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_9001000\/9001866.stm\">BBC &#8211; Earth News &#8211; Gigantic spider&#8217;s web discovered in Madagascar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But even that web is dwarfed by those spun by Darwin&#8217;s bark spider. &#8220;They build their web with the orb suspended directly above a river or the water body of a lake, a habitat that no other spider can use,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/3086\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-NM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3095,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}