{"id":205,"date":"2020-08-09T15:23:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T19:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/?p=205"},"modified":"2020-08-09T15:32:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T19:32:19","slug":"tiger-bee-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/08\/09\/tiger-bee-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Bee Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Large and exotic, this fly is actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insectidentification.org\/insect-description.asp?identification=Tiger-Bee-Fly\">harmless to humans<\/a> with neither a bite nor a sting.  The female lays its eggs in carpenter bee nests, where the fly larvae seek out and devour carpenter bee larvae before they can mature and escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8719-2020-08-08-Tiger-Bee-Fly-backyard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8719-2020-08-08-Tiger-Bee-Fly-backyard-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8719-2020-08-08-Tiger-Bee-Fly-backyard-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8719-2020-08-08-Tiger-Bee-Fly-backyard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8719-2020-08-08-Tiger-Bee-Fly-backyard-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8719-2020-08-08-Tiger-Bee-Fly-backyard-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8719-2020-08-08-Tiger-Bee-Fly-backyard-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMGP8719-2020-08-08-Tiger-Bee-Fly-backyard-1568x1047.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Tiger Bee Fly, Medina County, 2020-08-08<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large and exotic, this fly is actually harmless to humans with neither a bite nor a sting. The female lays its eggs in carpenter bee nests, where the fly larvae seek out and devour carpenter bee larvae before they can mature and escape.<\/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":[20,19,26],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects","tag-bee","tag-fly","tag-tiger","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}