{"id":1065,"date":"2013-02-01T15:57:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T07:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2013-02-03T16:08:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T08:08:55","slug":"march-flies-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/march-flies-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"March Flies in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130203-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1083\" alt=\"20130203 006\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130203-006-300x205.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130203-006-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130203-006.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The March flies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozanimals.com\/Insect\/March-Fly\/Tabanidae%20family\/.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tabanidae Diptera<\/em><\/a> are out in force already. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t been bitten yet this year, but have been regularly dancing around in the forest swatting at them as they land. \u00a0They often go for my boots and are quite easy to get once they land. \u00a0They are attracted to dark colours and poor Shorty will often have a couple trying to bite her at the same time. \u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/australianmuseum.net.au\/March-flies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Museum site<\/a> is accurate when it says &#8220;March flies are ferocious biters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Only the female march flies bite as they need blood to produce the next generation. \u00a0They use their strong, piercing mouthparts to extract blood from mammals. \u00a0Males have larger metallic green eyes and feed on nectar acting as important pollinators. \u00a0This one was biting a guest on the property, so must be female but it had pretty big green eyes too. \u00a0 March flies feed on Marri blossom and their numbers are in proportion to the amount of blossom around. \u00a0Judging by the numbers this year, we must have a lot of \u00a0Marri blossom which hopefully means lots of nuts and food for the black cockatoos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The March flies Tabanidae Diptera are out in force already. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t been bitten yet this year, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130203-003.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}