{"id":12791,"date":"2017-08-12T15:57:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T20:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12791"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:50:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T11:50:01","slug":"thick-headed-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12791","title":{"rendered":"Thick-headed Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12793\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170812_145586.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12793\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170812_145586-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Thick-headed Fly\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12793\" data-wp-pid=\"12793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170812_145586-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170812_145586-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170812_145586-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170812_145586-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170812_145586-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170812_145586.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thick-headed Fly<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I took this picture I assumed it was a wasp. Evan after going to BugGuide.net for identification that&#8217;s what I thought. I mean, it has that wasp-waisted look. But I wasn&#8217;t able to find any wasps that matched. That&#8217;s because it isn&#8217;t a wasp, it&#8217;s a fly, a thick-headed fly (Family Conopidae) to be precise. I think it is probably <em>Physocephala tibialis<\/em>, but I&#8217;m not completely sure. Anyway, it&#8217;s a pretty little thing and I&#8217;m pretty happy with this picture, especially as it&#8217;s the first thick-headed fly I&#8217;ve seen (at least knowingly).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I took this picture I assumed it was a wasp. Evan after going to BugGuide.net for identification that&#8217;s what I thought. I mean, it has that wasp-waisted look. But I wasn&#8217;t able to find any wasps that matched. That&#8217;s because it isn&#8217;t a wasp, it&#8217;s a fly, a thick-headed fly (Family Conopidae) to be &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12791\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791"}],"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=12791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12794,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791\/revisions\/12794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}