{"id":522,"date":"2009-05-08T21:44:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T04:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/522"},"modified":"2009-05-08T21:44:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T04:44:35","slug":"itsy-bitsy-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/itsy-bitsy-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Itsy Bitsy Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw something today that was kind of cool, but also kind of <em class=\"b\">creeped me out<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It was this cluster of yellow dots on my siding.\u00c2\u00a0 When I got closer, I saw the dots were moving&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 and when I got even closer, realized they were baby spiders.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 You can click the pic for a closer view&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I did some online searching and discovered this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tinyspider-big.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tinyspider-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Baby garden spiders\" class=\"floatleft\" \/><\/a><em>In late summer or early autumn many spiders mature mate and produce eggs. The common Garden Spider lays from three to eight hundred yellow eggs that she cements together and covers in a dense layer of coarse protective yellow silk and detritus. When spring comes the following year, bundles of tiny yellow spiderlings with a black spot on their rear end can be found. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If disturbed, the bundle of babies will &#8216;explode&#8217;, with individual spiderlings dispersing away from each other on tiny silken safety lines. Once the danger has passed they climb back up the web and form a clump again. Before emerging from their egg sac, the spiderlings moulted once. Once emerged, they remain together until they have moulted yet again and grown big enough to be independent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I know they are only garden spiders &#8211; but I have more spiders than I need in the garden.\u00c2\u00a0 I disposed of the little critters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw something today that was kind of cool, but also kind of creeped me out.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It was this cluster of yellow dots on my siding.\u00c2\u00a0 When I got closer, I saw the dots were moving&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 and when I got even closer, realized they were baby spiders.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 You can click the pic for a closer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/itsy-bitsy-spider\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Itsy Bitsy Spider<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}