{"id":439,"date":"2009-07-28T16:22:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T14:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2009-07-26T22:23:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T20:23:52","slug":"marmelade-fly-on-pink-anemone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/28\/marmelade-fly-on-pink-anemone","title":{"rendered":"Marmelade Fly on Pink Anemone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I said a few days ago, the anemones are currently popping up like crazy. It seems they are not the only ones, we&#8217;ve also got a huge number of mamelade flies:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doenges.com\/g\/v\/Nature\/marmelade-fly-on-anemone-flower.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doenges.com\/photos\/albums\/Nature\/marmelade-fly-on-anemone-flower.jpg\" alt=\"Two marmelade flies collecting pollen and nectar from an anemone flower.\" width=\"640\" \/> <\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marmelade Flies on an Anemone Flower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As you can tell, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marmelade_fly\">marmelade fly<\/a> (<em>Episyrphus balteatus<\/em>) looks a bit like a solitary wasp, but it really is a hoverfly and therefore quite harmless. Harmless to everyone and everything but aphids (plant lice or greenflies), that is, which the larvae (would that be marmelade larvae?) are fond of eating.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason the marmelade flies are quite welcome in my garden and I like to have them come around. In case you are wondering, they do not seem to have the habit of becoming annoying like their house fly cousins.<\/p>\n<p>These two, incidentally, are both males. You can tell this because the eyes touch at the top of the head, which is unique to the males. Isn&#8217;t it cool what you can find out if you take an interest in what shows up in your pictures? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I said a few days ago, the anemones are currently popping up like crazy. It seems they are not the only ones, we&#8217;ve also got a huge number of mamelade flies: As you can tell, a marmelade fly (Episyrphus balteatus) looks a bit like a solitary wasp, but it really is a hoverfly and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[776,608,701,777,574],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-anemone","tag-flower","tag-insect","tag-marmelade-fly","tag-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}