{"id":681,"date":"2012-04-05T23:21:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T04:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2012-04-06T10:33:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T15:33:49","slug":"syrphid-fly-and-plant-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Syrphid Fly and Plant Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_684\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/img_20120405_031678.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-684\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/img_20120405_031678-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Syrphid Fly - Toxomerus marginatus\" title=\"Syrphid Fly - Toxomerus marginatus\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/img_20120405_031678-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/img_20120405_031678-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/img_20120405_031678.jpg 1249w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Syrphid Fly (<em>Toxomerus marginatus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went out into the empty lot next to my office again today. What a beautiful day it was, too. It&#8217;s not like summer yet but there was a fair amount of insect activity. I sought out some weeds that are flowering (yellow rocket, <em>Barbarea vulgaris<\/em>, also variously known as Bittercress, Herb Barbara, Rocketcress, Yellow Rocketcress, Winter Rocket, and Wound Rocket &#x2014; which is why I like to stick to Latin binomials). After a little waiting, I was rewarded by the appearance on some nearby Shepherd&#8217;s-purse (<em>Capsella bursa-pastoris<\/em>) of a syrphid fly. He (or she, I have no idea) moved to the yellow rocket and I got a few more pictures, including this one. I identified it, with the help of <a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/8221\" target=\"_blank\">BugGuide<\/a>, as <em>Toxomerus marginatus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_685\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/img_20120405_031690.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-685\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/img_20120405_031690-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Tarnished Plant Bug - Lygus lineolaris\" title=\"Tarnished Plant Bug - Lygus lineolaris\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/img_20120405_031690-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/img_20120405_031690-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/img_20120405_031690-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/img_20120405_031690-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/img_20120405_031690.jpg 1249w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tarnished Plant Bug? (<em>Lygus lineolaris<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then I noticed another insect, some sort of plant bug (family <em>Miridae<\/em>) I think, on the next plant to my right. My guess is that this is <em>Lygus lineolaris<\/em>, the tarnished plant bug, but I&#8217;m waiting for confirmation (or correction). There are a lot of bugs that look similar to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out into the empty lot next to my office again today. What a beautiful day it was, too. It&#8217;s not like summer yet but there was a fair amount of insect activity. I sought out some weeds that are flowering (yellow rocket, Barbarea vulgaris, also variously known as Bittercress, Herb Barbara, Rocketcress, Yellow &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=681\">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\/681"}],"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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}