{"id":1684,"date":"2010-07-30T00:07:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T23:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1684"},"modified":"2013-11-10T18:08:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T18:08:40","slug":"the-spider-and-the-hover-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-spider-and-the-hover-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spider and the (Hover) Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Out in the garden this evening I could hear some buzzing. Frantic buzzing, incessant buzzing. I searched. it got louder. Eventually I found the source. The sound was emerging from inside a deeply curled leaf which a small spider had used for a trap.
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Earlier I'd come across a tiny bug crawling up (and down) a pea stick. My field guide tells me its a common green capsid.
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And because it seems a while (and she's growing up so quickly), a shot of Cheeky (the young vixen) from tonight. She's hunting bugs (with some success).
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,252,991,1009],"tags":[645,1128,1163,1132],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-hoverfly","category-insects-2","category-spiders-2","tag-bug","tag-fox","tag-hoverfly","tag-spider","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t