{"id":3032,"date":"2014-02-10T02:02:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2014-02-12T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T17:28:05","slug":"winter-buglympics-2014-let-the-games-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/10\/winter-buglympics-2014-let-the-games-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Buglympics 2014 &#8211; Let the Games Begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s that time again, when nations around the world send their top athletes to compete in the Winter Olympics for precious medals,\u00a0national pride and bragging rights for another 4 years! The 22nd Winter Olympic Games are being held in sunny Sochi, Russia this year, which opens the door for a new team to make its first Winter Olympics: Team Arthropoda!<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the games, these industrious insects, sporting spiders, and other athletic arthropods will be showing they can compete with the best of us mammals, especially under the magnifying glass of international attention inherent with the Olympics &#8212; something insects and their kin are used to dealing with by now!<\/p>\n<p>The 22nd Winter Olympiad officially began Friday evening with the opening ceremonies, and extravagant event showing off the natural wonders, history and culture of Russia, including an early shout-out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/fly-cankles-and-literary-evolution\/\" target=\"_blank\">taxonomist-turned-novelist Vladimir Nabokov and his beloved butterflies<\/a>! The athletes from each nation paraded into the Fisht Olympic Stadium lead by their flag-bearer, an honour generally bestowed on an athlete considered to be a leader for the team.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/news-photo\/ice-hockey-player-hayley-wickenheiser-of-the-canada-olympic-news-photo\/467586161\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Canadian-Olympic-Team-01.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"486\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hockey player and 2014 flag-bearer Hayley Wickenheiser leads Team Canada into Fisht Olympic Stadium during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Photo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/news-photo\/ice-hockey-player-hayley-wickenheiser-of-the-canada-olympic-news-photo\/467586161\" target=\"_blank\">copyright Paul Gilham\/Getty Images<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, directly under the Olympic flag on the main stage, Team Arthropoda selected the newly-named Australian jumping spider\u00a0<em>Maratus avibus<\/em> to carry their colours, for obvious reasons. <a href=\"http:\/\/peckhamia.com\/peckhamia\/PECKHAMIA_112.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Described just in time for these Olympics by J\u00fcrgen Otto and David Hill,\u00a0<em>Maratus avibus<\/em><\/a> is the newest delegate of the peacock spiders, and proudly waved Team Arthropoda&#8217;s flag as high as he possibly could, even if it was only a few millimeters.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AOAfXUshpVY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned throughout the 2014 Winter Olympics to find out how Team Arthropoda stacks up against the rest of the world!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<span class=\"Z3988\" title=\"ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft_id=info%3Aother%2Furn%3Alsid%3Azoobank.org%3Apub%3AB53D2909-07C3-4E9E-B8F2-C358650E78AF&amp;rft.atitle=Spiders+of+the+mungaich+group+from+Western+Australia+%28Araneae%3A+Salticidae%3A+Euophryinae%3A+Maratus%29%2C+with+one+new+species+from+Cape+Arid&amp;rft.jtitle=Peckhamia&amp;rft.artnum=http%3A%2F%2Fpeckhamia.com%2Fpeckhamia%2FPECKHAMIA_112.1.pdf&amp;rft.volume=112&amp;rft.issue=1&amp;rft.issn=ISSN+1944%E2%80%958120&amp;rft.spage=1&amp;rft.epage=35&amp;rft.date=2014&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fscienceseeker.org&amp;rft.au=Otto+J%C3%BCrgen+C.&amp;rft.aulast=Otto&amp;rft.aufirst=J%C3%BCrgen+C.&amp;rft.au=Hill+David+E.&amp;rft.aulast=Hill&amp;rft.aufirst=David+E.&amp;rfs_dat=ss.included=1&amp;rfe_dat=bpr3.included=1;bpr3.tags=Biology\">Otto J.C. &amp; Hill D.E. (2014). Spiders of the <em>mungaich<\/em> group from Western Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae: <em>Maratus<\/em>), with one new species from Cape Arid, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Peckhamia, 112<\/span> (1) 1-35. Other: <a href=\"http:\/\/peckhamia.com\/peckhamia\/PECKHAMIA_112.1.pdf\" rev=\"review\">urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B53D2909-07C3-4E9E-B8F2-C358650E78AF<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time again, when nations around the world send their top athletes to compete in the Winter Olympics for precious medals,\u00a0national pride and bragging rights for another 4 years! The 22nd Winter Olympic Games are being held in sunny Sochi, Russia this year, which opens the door for a new team to make its <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/10\/winter-buglympics-2014-let-the-games-begin\/' 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":[28,151,16],"tags":[311,518,515,599,513,169,514,182],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arthropoda","category-fun-stuff","category-pop-culture","tag-araneae","tag-buglympics","tag-olympics","tag-pop-culture","tag-salticidae","tag-spider","tag-sport","tag-winter","category-28-id","category-151-id","category-16-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","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=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}