{"id":2233,"date":"2012-06-09T17:34:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2012-06-09T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:34:45","slug":"guardians-of-the-laundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/09\/guardians-of-the-laundry\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians of the Laundry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While taking our dog to the basement for a bath last night, my wife encountered a stairwell full of her next-to-least favourite<sup>1<\/sup> arthropod &#8212; cellar spiders (<em>Pholcus phalangioides<\/em>).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2234\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/09\/guardians-of-the-laundry\/cellar-spider\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2234\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2234\" title=\"Cellar Spider - Pholcus phalangioides\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Cellar-Spider20120608.jpg\" alt=\"Cellar Spider - Pholcus phalangioides\" width=\"650\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Cellar-Spider20120608.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Cellar-Spider20120608-500x331.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Cellar-Spider20120608-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cellar Spider - Pholcus phalangioides<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By the looks of that egg sac, our laundry room will be well protected for the foreseeable future, much to my wife&#8217;s chagrin!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>1- Ren\u00e9e&#8217;s least favourite arthropod being the house centipede of course.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While taking our dog to the basement for a bath last night, my wife encountered a stairwell full of her next-to-least favourite1 arthropod &#8212; cellar spiders (Pholcus phalangioides). By the looks of that egg sac, our laundry room will be well protected for the foreseeable future, much to my wife&#8217;s chagrin! &nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; 1- Ren\u00e9e&#8217;s <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/09\/guardians-of-the-laundry\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,47],"tags":[311,406,169],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate","category-nature","tag-araneae","tag-pholcidae","tag-spider","category-388-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}