Lurking in the garden is a beautiful creature who spins her web every night to rid us of those pesky mosquitoes.<\/p>\n
The Garden Orb Weaver is actually a collected name for several species of spiders with similar body shape and behavior. Yes she is beautiful but only from a distance as anyone who inadvertently walks into one of her webs will attest to just how quickly that distance can be achieved.<\/p>\n
It might be wishful thinking to hope she keeps the mosquito population down but I sure do like seeing her in our garden.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Lurking in the Garden, 1\/100s f\/16 ISO1250 100mm 2x Off Camera Strobes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lurking in the garden is a beautiful creature who spins her web every night to rid us of those pesky mosquitoes. The Garden Orb Weaver is actually a collected name for several species of spiders with similar body shape and behavior. Yes she is beautiful but only from a distance as anyone who inadvertently walks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,65,80,81,84,82,79,44,46,78,64,85,62,45],"class_list":["post-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arachnid","tag-cobweb","tag-garden","tag-gardenorbweaver","tag-hunting","tag-macro","tag-orbweaver","tag-photooftheday","tag-robertrath","tag-spiders","tag-spiderweb","tag-strobist","tag-web","tag-wetshutter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions\/4316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}