{"id":4029,"date":"2013-08-06T11:20:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T03:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2013-08-11T14:06:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T06:06:31","slug":"hover-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/06\/hover-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Hover Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130805-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3993\" alt=\"20130805 008\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130805-008-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130805-008-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130805-008.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I thought I had found a special species of native bee when I looked closer at one of the photos I <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/03\/spring-has-sprung\/\">took over the weekend<\/a>, but it was a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hoverfly\">hover fly<\/a>. \u00a0 Hover flies are the mimics of the insect world with some adults looking like wasps and bees to reduce the risk of predation, some larvae giving off the same chemicals as ants and others looking like slugs. \u00a0 Unlike bees and wasps,\u00a0they only have one pair of wings and their antennae are shorter. \u00a0They are also called flower flies as many species feed on nectar and pollen and are helpful pollinators. \u00a0Some species are looked at as a possible biological control of aphids as the larvae of some species feed on them. Colourful, harmless, \u00a0pollinating, pest managers means they are all round good guys in my book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I had found a special species of native bee when I looked closer at one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130805-008.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","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=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4130,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}