{"id":22639,"date":"2026-08-10T22:22:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22639"},"modified":"2026-08-10T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:22:34","slug":"critters-of-the-day-holly-blue-and-hunting-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22639","title":{"rendered":"Critters of the Day: Holly Blue and Hunting Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22640\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/blueIMGP0013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/blueIMGP0013.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/blueIMGP0013-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Here&#8217;s a delicate blue butterfly sipping from the tiny pink flowers of a mint plant. And here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/britishspiders.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-08\/Salticus_online.pdf\">Common Zebra<\/a> spider with a fly as big as itself:<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22641\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/spiderIMGP0015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/spiderIMGP0015.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/spiderIMGP0015-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>A2 is reading <em>Kafka on the Shore<\/em>* by Haruki Murakami<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a delicate blue butterfly sipping from the tiny pink flowers of a mint plant. And here&#8217;s a Common Zebra spider with a fly as big as itself:A2 is reading Kafka on the Shore* by Haruki Murakami<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639"}],"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=22639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22642,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639\/revisions\/22642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}