{"id":12693,"date":"2017-07-24T18:14:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T23:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12693"},"modified":"2017-08-04T09:40:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T14:40:04","slug":"blow-fly-on-monarda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12693","title":{"rendered":"Blow Fly on Monarda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12694\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170724_144232.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12694\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170724_144232-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Blow Fly on Monarda\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12694\" data-wp-pid=\"12694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170724_144232-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170724_144232-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170724_144232-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170724_144232-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170724_144232-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170724_144232.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blow Fly on Monarda<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I got a few insect photos today, including a few of large milkweed bugs (<em>Oncopeltus fasciatus<\/em>) on milkweed (<em>Asclepias tuberosa<\/em>), an eastern tiger swallowtail (<em>Papilio glaucus<\/em>) on <em>buddleia<\/em> flowers, an eastern bumble bee (<em>Bombus impatiens<\/em>) on a coneflower (<em>Echinacea purpurea<\/em>), and some sort of longlegged fly (family Dolichopodidae). Finally, I got some of this blow fly (family Calliphoridae) on scarlet beebalm (<em>Monarda didyma<\/em>). It&#8217;s not my favorite insect. In fact, I&#8217;d have to rank it in the bottom half rather than the top. I don&#8217;t mind wasps and bees in general but flies and particular what I consider to be the &#x2018;annoying flies&#x2019; are in the negative side of the scale, along with mosquitoes and horse and deer flies. But their metallic green bodies are pretty cool, in spite of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a few insect photos today, including a few of large milkweed bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus) on milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa), an eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) on buddleia flowers, an eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) on a coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), and some sort of longlegged fly (family Dolichopodidae). Finally, I got some of this blow &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12693\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[150,73,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12695,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12693\/revisions\/12695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}