{"id":3869,"date":"2012-03-05T11:18:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T00:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2012-03-21T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T05:41:19","slug":"bulls-eye-sleeping-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/bulls-eye-sleeping-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mosca.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3870\" title=\"mosca\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mosca.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mosca.png 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mosca-300x156.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adult spider fly. Image: Shaun Winterton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Dense hair and metallic colourations give a jewel-like appearance to the always-deathly spider fly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Spider flies have large round bodies, elongated mouthparts and a fantastic green to blue colouration. But their jewel-like appearance is not the only thing that is worth mentioning: spiders such as the Sydney funnel web or the trapdoor are some of their favourite &#8216;meals&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 400px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/insecto-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3871\" title=\"insecto 2\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/insecto-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/insecto-2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/insecto-2-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adult spider fly (Panops Jade) preserved specimen. Image: Shaun Winterton <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>All species in <em>Panops <\/em>have larvae that parasite juvenile spiders. The maggot lives inside the spider for years, preventing its prey from developing into an adult. Eventually, the spider fly maggot will eat its &#8216;host&#8217; and then pupate to develop into a gorgeous adult.<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Gabriela Munoz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dense hair and metallic colourations give a jewel-like appearance to the always-deathly spider fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,7,101,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazing-images","category-animals","category-bulls-eye","category-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4446,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions\/4446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}