{"podcast":{"title":"Natural Connections","slug":"natural-connections-90209","podcast_index_feed_id":90209,"rss_url":"https://cablenaturalhistorymuseum.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://cablenaturalhistorymuseum.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/4/7/6/a4765a07d301e418/podcast_logo.jpg","author":"Emily Stone","episode_count":99,"summary":"Natural Connections is a weekly newspaper column created by Emily Stone, the Naturalist/Education Director at the Cable Natural History Museum in Cable, Wisconsin. In each episode, Emily reads her fun and informative weekly column about Northwoods Nature.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-11T06:25:04.872355+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209"},"episode":{"title":"435 - Who's Hiding in the Tapestry?","slug":"435-who-s-hiding-in-the-tapestry","published_at":"2026-07-16T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209/435-who-s-hiding-in-the-tapestry","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209","url":"https://cablenaturalhistorymuseum.libsyn.com/435-whos-hiding-in-the-tapestry","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cablenaturalhistorymuseum/435_-_Whos_Hiding_in_the_Tapestry.mp3?dest-id=491045","summary":"From a distance, the forests of July look like a lush tapestry of green. But when you step into the loosely woven strands and take a closer look, the leaves are etched with feeding trails, dissected by holes of all shapes and sizes, and covered with the debris of life. It's a principle of ecology, of course, that every Being is food for someone else. Feeding styles vary. Some invertebrates are \"leaf folders,\" while others are \"leaf rollers\" or \"leaf tiers.\" All of these insects and spiders use silk that contracts as it dries to shape leaves into shelters. I set out to find examples of all of the leaf architects.","meta_description":"From a distance, the forests of July look like a lush tapestry of green. But when you step into the loosely woven strands and take a closer look, the leav…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":393,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/natural-connections-90209/episodes/435-who-s-hiding-in-the-tapestry/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209/435-who-s-hiding-in-the-tapestry.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}