{"id":3019,"date":"2009-09-17T11:50:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2010-01-16T11:53:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T16:53:44","slug":"spider-spells-on-lieutenant-islands-sandy-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3019","title":{"rendered":"Spider Spells on Lieutenant Island’s Sandy Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wolf Spider on Lieutenant Island’s Sandy Hook<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Checking terrapin nests on the sandy hook of Lieutenant Island this week, I stumbled across an interesting spider vignette.\u00c2\u00a0 A wolf spider stood at the opening to a perfectly circular wolf spider\u00c2\u00a0hole and appeared to be casting a mesmerizing spell on what might lie beneath.<\/p>\n

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Wolf Spider Casts Spell<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

When the spider tried to enter the hole, something happened to cause it to scurry\u00c2\u00a0several inches\u00c2\u00a0away.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, a second\u00c2\u00a0wolf spider crept out of the hole to investigate what was happening topside.<\/p>\n

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The two spiders stood a few inches apart\u00c2\u00a0 for what seemed like an eternity … or at least long enough to out-wait me, as I had to proceed with my survey of terrapin nests out on this isolated dune arm of Lieutenant Island.<\/p>\n

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Two Wolf Spiders on Lieutenant Island’s Sandy Hook<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wolf Spider on Lieutenant Island’s Sandy Hook Checking terrapin nests on the sandy hook of Lieutenant Island this week, I stumbled across an interesting spider vignette.\u00c2\u00a0 A wolf spider stood at the opening to a perfectly circular wolf spider\u00c2\u00a0hole and appeared to be casting a mesmerizing spell on what might lie beneath. Click Here to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}