{"id":187,"date":"2020-08-04T17:13:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T21:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/?p=187"},"modified":"2020-08-05T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T14:41:14","slug":"physocephala-tibialis-or-thick-headed-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/08\/04\/physocephala-tibialis-or-thick-headed-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Physocephala tibialis or Thick-headed Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Identification is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/35662\" target=\"_blank\">tentative<\/a> but probably correct or very close.  It&#8217;s a wasp-mimic, but the eyes are distinctly those of a fly.  It was strikingly beautiful in the field.  It&#8217;s not a great photo, but its one of only two I got before it flew away.  The colloquial name, while amusing, is not a pejorative but instead originates from the fact that the heads of these flies are always wider than the thorax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/imgp8273-2020-08-04-Thick-headed-Fly-cropped-neat-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/imgp8273-2020-08-04-Thick-headed-Fly-cropped-neat-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/imgp8273-2020-08-04-Thick-headed-Fly-cropped-neat-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/imgp8273-2020-08-04-Thick-headed-Fly-cropped-neat-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/imgp8273-2020-08-04-Thick-headed-Fly-cropped-neat-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/imgp8273-2020-08-04-Thick-headed-Fly-cropped-neat-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/imgp8273-2020-08-04-Thick-headed-Fly-cropped-neat-1568x1044.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>Physocephala tibialis<\/em>, a.k.a. Thick-headed Fly, 2020-08-04<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identification is tentative but probably correct or very close. It&#8217;s a wasp-mimic, but the eyes are distinctly those of a fly. It was strikingly beautiful in the field. It&#8217;s not a great photo, but its one of only two I got before it flew away. The colloquial name, while amusing, is not a pejorative but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/08\/04\/physocephala-tibialis-or-thick-headed-fly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Physocephala tibialis or Thick-headed Fly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"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=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}