{"id":184,"date":"2020-08-04T16:10:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/?p=184"},"modified":"2020-08-05T10:31:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T14:31:26","slug":"hunchback-bee-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/08\/04\/hunchback-bee-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunchback Bee Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An interesting fly in both appearance and behavior.  Something like the &#8220;Brown Cowbird&#8221; of insects, it will lay its eggs in the nest of wasps.  The unsuspecting wasp stocks the nest with provisions for its own larva, but this fly&#8217;s larva gets fed instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8236-2020-08-04-Hunchback-Bee-Fly-Lepidophora-lutea-frontyard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8236-2020-08-04-Hunchback-Bee-Fly-Lepidophora-lutea-frontyard-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8236-2020-08-04-Hunchback-Bee-Fly-Lepidophora-lutea-frontyard-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8236-2020-08-04-Hunchback-Bee-Fly-Lepidophora-lutea-frontyard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8236-2020-08-04-Hunchback-Bee-Fly-Lepidophora-lutea-frontyard-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8236-2020-08-04-Hunchback-Bee-Fly-Lepidophora-lutea-frontyard-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8236-2020-08-04-Hunchback-Bee-Fly-Lepidophora-lutea-frontyard-1568x1044.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8236-2020-08-04-Hunchback-Bee-Fly-Lepidophora-lutea-frontyard.jpg 1611w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Lepidophora lutea, a.k.a. the Hunchback Bee Fly, 2020-08-04<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting fly in both appearance and behavior. Something like the &#8220;Brown Cowbird&#8221; of insects, it will lay its eggs in the nest of wasps. The unsuspecting wasp stocks the nest with provisions for its own larva, but this fly&#8217;s larva gets fed instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects","tag-bee","tag-fly","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}