{"id":34738,"date":"2018-06-06T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T17:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=34738"},"modified":"2018-06-15T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:38:00","slug":"yard-work-backyard-spider-identification-thinlegged-wolf-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-backyard-spider-identification-thinlegged-wolf-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard work: backyard spider identification: thinlegged wolf spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Self-tutoring about a spider I see in the yard: the tutor shares a find.<\/h1>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve seen numerous spiders with black legs and head but white abdomen. &#8220;What kind of spider are they?&#8221; I wondered.<\/p>\n<p>Today I looked them up: apparently they are female thinlegged wolf spiders. The white abdomen is not part of the body, but rather an egg sac the female is carrying.<\/p>\n<p>As I understand, being wolfers, these spiders hunt, rather than living in webs. I see them wandering, which makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a pic of one:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/..\/images\/spiderwhite.png\" style=\"display:block;margin:auto\" title=\"thinlegged wolf spider with white abdomen egg sac\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.pdx.edu\/~smasta\/MastaSpidersYard.html#Lycosidae\">web.pdx.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about a spider I see in the yard: the tutor shares a find. Lately I&#8217;ve seen numerous spiders with black legs and head but white abdomen. &#8220;What kind of spider are they?&#8221; I wondered. Today I looked them up: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-backyard-spider-identification-thinlegged-wolf-spider\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yard work: backyard spider identification: thinlegged wolf spider<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2936],"tags":[2938],"class_list":["post-34738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arachnology","tag-spider-with-white-back-white-abdomen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34738"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47599,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34738\/revisions\/47599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}