{"id":213,"date":"2010-08-25T16:26:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T15:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography"},"modified":"2019-01-28T16:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T16:58:40","slug":"spiders-mating-ritual","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/behaviour\/spiders-mating-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiders Mating Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following sequence was photographed in September 2008 over a period of 15 minutes. The larger spider (on the left) is the female. She&#8217;s a typical garden spider (<em>Araneus diadematus<\/em>) of the type frequently seen in British gardens. The smaller spider is the male.<\/p>\n<p>The ritual entails a very cautious approach by the male during which he drums a complex rhythm on the webbing to alert the female that he is indeed a spider, and a potential mate. The risk to him is that she will think he is prey. &nbsp;In these photos he gradually approaches the female, though on this occasion mating did not occur and he retreated (uneaten).<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderSpecies: <em>Araneus diadematus<br \/>\n<\/em>Location: Sussex (gardens, hedgerow)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following sequence was photographed in September 2008 over a period of 15 minutes. The larger spider (on the left) is the female. She&#8217;s a typical garden spider (Araneus diadematus) of the type frequently seen in British gardens. The smaller spider is the male. The ritual entails a very cautious approach by the male during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":159,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-213","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}