{"id":1315,"date":"2011-03-05T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/death-and-the-velvet-worm\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:28:00","slug":"death-and-the-velvet-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/death-and-the-velvet-worm\/","title":{"rendered":"Death and the velvet worm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/iNUvQPpwZfw\/death-and-the-velvet.html\">Death and the velvet worm<\/a>: &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something oddly soothing about hearing David Attenborough say the words, &#8216;soft, slumpy legs.&#8217; Almost like he&#8217;s talking about Winnie the Pooh, rather than a carnivorous worm that eats its prey alive.<\/p>\n<p>How does the velvet worm trap creatures long enough to slowly consume them? In the video, you can see it spraying out a sticky, quick-hardening slime that engulfs a cricket and renders it motionless. The trick, according to some cool research written about by bloggers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/02\/in-the-web-of-the-velvet-worm\/\">Brian Switek<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/scicurious\/2011\/02\/25\/friday-weird-science-killin-prey-with-my-super-scary-glue-gun\/\">Scicurious<\/a>, is that the slime is 90% water. Once exposed to air, the water evaporates out, leaving behind an ever-tightening net.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=f28b979caf927213763b6f7d12bfa858&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=f28b979caf927213763b6f7d12bfa858&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/segment-pixel.invitemedia.com\/pixel?code=TechCons&#038;partnerID=167&#038;key=segment\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?resize=0%2C0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/iNUvQPpwZfw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\">&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death and the velvet worm: &#8220; There&#8217;s something oddly soothing about hearing David Attenborough say the words, &#8216;soft, slumpy legs.&#8217; Almost like he&#8217;s talking about Winnie the Pooh, rather than a carnivorous worm that eats its prey alive. How does the velvet worm trap creatures long enough to slowly consume them? In the video, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-ld","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}