{"id":8655,"date":"2015-07-31T14:18:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T19:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8655"},"modified":"2015-08-07T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T14:30:33","slug":"eristalis-transversa-transverse-flower-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8655","title":{"rendered":"<em>Eristalis transversa<\/em> (Transverse Flower Fly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8657\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150731_110021.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8657\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150731_110021-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Eristalis transversa (Transverse Flower Fly)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8657\" data-wp-pid=\"8657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150731_110021-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150731_110021-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150731_110021-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150731_110021-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150731_110021-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150731_110021.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Eristalis transversa<\/em> (Transverse Flower Fly)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I saw a sphinx month today, which is always nice. They are such interesting things, not looking like what most people think of when the picture a moth. I got some pictures of that but decided to go with this one, a fly that I haven&#8217;t seen before today. It is a transverse flower fly, <em>Eristalis transversa<\/em>, and in this picture is on the center of a black-eyed Susan flower. I know flies are not everyone&#8217;s cup of tea, but some of them, like this one, are quite beautiful. I particularly like the way the yellow of the fly matches the yellow of the flower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a sphinx month today, which is always nice. They are such interesting things, not looking like what most people think of when the picture a moth. I got some pictures of that but decided to go with this one, a fly that I haven&#8217;t seen before today. It is a transverse flower fly, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8655\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655"}],"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=8655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8660,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655\/revisions\/8660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}