{"id":21574,"date":"2025-08-14T23:10:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21574"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:35:44","slug":"cannibalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21574","title":{"rendered":"Cannibalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21575\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/spiderIMGP0010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/spiderIMGP0010.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/spiderIMGP0010-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Focus on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pholcus_phalangioides\">Pholcus<\/a>: the cosmopolitan cellar spider. We have been tolerating these spindly spinners with their messy webs on the assumption that they will tackle the fruit flies, house flies and bluebottles hanging around our house but it turns out that their favourite food is other spiders, those that probably have more interest in flies.<br \/>\nIn other news, our new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vermilionsands.uk\/weather2\/forecast\/index.php?loc=0\">weather forecast page<\/a> is progressing.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>The Sycamore Gap<\/em>* by LJ Ross and A2 is reading <em>Human Remains<\/em>* by Jo Callaghan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus on the Pholcus: the cosmopolitan cellar spider. We have been tolerating these spindly spinners with their messy webs on the assumption that they will tackle the fruit flies, house flies and bluebottles hanging around our house but it turns out that their favourite food is other spiders, those that probably have more interest in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cannibalism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,14],"tags":[19,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21583,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21574\/revisions\/21583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}