{"id":8935,"date":"2015-09-10T18:33:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T23:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8935"},"modified":"2015-09-12T08:42:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T13:42:26","slug":"lucilia-sericata-common-green-bottle-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8935","title":{"rendered":"<em>Lucilia sericata<\/em> (Common Green Bottle Fly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8937\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150910_112024.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8937\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150910_112024-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Lucilia sericata (Common Green Bottle Fly)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8937\" data-wp-pid=\"8937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150910_112024-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150910_112024-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150910_112024-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150910_112024-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150910_112024-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/img_20150910_112024.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Lucilia sericata<\/em> (Common Green Bottle Fly)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I hope you aren&#8217;t too tired of insect photographs. It won&#8217;t be long and they will be a lot harder to find, so my photography will shift into autumnal mode, with colored leaves and such. For now, the insects are still going string. We were supposed to have heavy rain today and in Annapolis they got nearly 3&#xbe;&#x2033;. We got enough to make the ground wet, but not under trees.<\/p>\n<p>This is a common green bottle fly (<em>Lucilia sericata<\/em>), also known as a sheep blow fly. While the larvae feed on flesh, they only eat partially decomposed tissue. They have actually been used to clean wounds, eating the necrotic tissue and leaving healthy tissue alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you aren&#8217;t too tired of insect photographs. It won&#8217;t be long and they will be a lot harder to find, so my photography will shift into autumnal mode, with colored leaves and such. For now, the insects are still going string. We were supposed to have heavy rain today and in Annapolis they &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8935\">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\/8935"}],"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=8935"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8946,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions\/8946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}