{"id":6828,"date":"2020-06-26T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=6828"},"modified":"2020-06-22T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T17:22:30","slug":"tiny-garden-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/tiny-garden-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Garden Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, it&#8217;s funny&#8230; Every time I&#8217;ve ever seen a garden spider in my home garden it&#8217;s like this giant yellow spider just suddenly appears out of nowhere.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never noticed them when they are small, until this week.\u00a0 This is a tiny spider hanging out among our shasta daisies and other flowering perennials.\u00a0 That is a daisy leaf for size comparison.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m curious to see if this one hangs out long enough to grow into the large impressive spiders we tend to be startled by each year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note that despite their eventual large size and bright colors they are beneficial and not dangerous.\u00a0 If they aren&#8217;t blocking a space you need to walk through go ahead and leave them and observe &#8211; they are especially cool to watch with kids and a great opportunity to teach them not to be afraid.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a blog post to learn more about garden spiders from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tenthacrefarm.com\/black-yellow-garden-spider\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tenth Acre Farms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6829\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_6696-Edit.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_6696-Edit.jpg 600w, http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_6696-Edit-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, it&#8217;s funny&#8230; Every time I&#8217;ve ever seen a garden spider in my home garden it&#8217;s like this giant yellow spider just suddenly appears out of nowhere.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never noticed them when they are small, until this week.\u00a0 This is a tiny spider hanging out among our shasta daisies and other flowering perennials.\u00a0 That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1156,922,1001,11,300],"tags":[1157,486,293,1215,692],"class_list":["post-6828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-arachnids","category-in-the-garden","category-macro-portraiture","category-nature","category-portraiture","tag-arachnid","tag-garden-spider","tag-macro","tag-nature","tag-spiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6831,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6828\/revisions\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}