{"id":17377,"date":"2019-07-24T17:28:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T21:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17377"},"modified":"2019-08-02T12:03:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:03:16","slug":"eristalis-transversa-transverse-flower-fly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17377","title":{"rendered":"<em>Eristalis transversa<\/em> (Transverse Flower Fly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17379\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190724_167801.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17379\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190724_167801-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Eristalis transversa (Transverse Flower Fly)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17379\" data-wp-pid=\"17379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190724_167801-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190724_167801-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190724_167801-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190724_167801-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190724_167801-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190724_167801.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Eristalis transversa<\/em> (Transverse Flower Fly)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was taking photos of the black-eyed Susan flowers this evening when I spotted this little fly, a transverse flower fly (<em>Eristalis transversa<\/em>) visiting them. It wouldn&#8217;t stay still for very long and I had a hard time getting a good picture. Ideally it would be on top of the dark eye in the flower, but I wasn&#8217;t able to get that. I like the combination of colors that matches the flowers. These are pretty little flies and easily spotted in the garden. As flies go, I enjoy these about as much as any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was taking photos of the black-eyed Susan flowers this evening when I spotted this little fly, a transverse flower fly (Eristalis transversa) visiting them. It wouldn&#8217;t stay still for very long and I had a hard time getting a good picture. Ideally it would be on top of the dark eye in the flower, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17377\">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":[1230,1861,1862,1229,73,1677,1860],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377"}],"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=17377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17381,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377\/revisions\/17381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}