{"id":2885,"date":"2009-10-13T02:17:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T10:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2020-10-06T00:06:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T07:06:53","slug":"acceptable-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"Acceptable Spider?"},"content":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/zenicurean.livejournal.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">zenicurean<\/span><\/a> alerted me to <div style=\"padding: 0.5em ; padding-bottom: 0 ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2009\/10\/091012-vegetarian-spider.html\"><q><q>Surreal<\/q> Vegetarian Spider Found &mdash; A First<\/q> by Matt Kaplan at <cite>National Geographic<\/cite><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\"><p>Though the spider does occasionally snack on ant larv&aelig;, the bulk of their diet is plants, Meehan said.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div> <p><span style=\"font-weight: bolder ; font-variant: small-caps ;\">Up-Date<\/span> (2020:10\/06)<span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">:<\/span> The original link is no longer valid, but here are articles on the spider in the academic literature:<\/p> <div style=\"padding: 0.5em ; padding-bottom: 0.5em ;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cub.2009.08.049\"><q>Herbivory in a spider through exploitation of an ant-plant mutualism<\/q> by Meehan &amp;<span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">aliis<\/span> in <cite>Current Biology<\/cite> v 19 #19 (13 Oct 2009) pp R892&ndash;R893<\/a><\/div> <div style=\"padding: 0.5em ; padding-bottom: 0.5em ;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cub.2009.08.043\"><q>Nutritional Ecology: A First Vegetarian Spider<\/q> by Duncan E.Jackson in <cite>Current Biology<\/cite> v 19 #19 (13 Oct 2009) pp R894&ndash;R895<\/a><\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, zenicurean alerted me to Surreal Vegetarian Spider Found &mdash; A First by Matt Kaplan at National Geographic Though the spider does occasionally snack on ant larv&aelig;, the bulk of their diet is plants, Meehan said. Up-Date (2020:10\/06): The original link is no longer valid, but here are articles on the spider in the academic [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,4],"tags":[718,456,393],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public","tag-arachnids","tag-arthropods","tag-spiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11429,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/11429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}