{"id":429,"date":"2022-06-20T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/?p=429"},"modified":"2022-06-20T07:33:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T11:33:21","slug":"dolichopodidae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/06\/20\/dolichopodidae\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolichopodidae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dolichopodidae, or the long-legged flies, are a large family of &#8220;true flies&#8221; with more than 7,000 described species. Or so says <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dolichopodidae\">wikipedia<\/a>.  They also tend to have beautiful metallic colors.  These two were spotted on the pepper plants in my garden.  I believe they were involved in a mating ritual or territorial dispute. The one in flight was performing a hovering\/flyby act while the other watched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"782\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMGP4210-2022-06-18-Long-legged-fly-our-garden-782x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMGP4210-2022-06-18-Long-legged-fly-our-garden-782x1024.jpg 782w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMGP4210-2022-06-18-Long-legged-fly-our-garden-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMGP4210-2022-06-18-Long-legged-fly-our-garden-768x1006.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMGP4210-2022-06-18-Long-legged-fly-our-garden.jpg 835w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/><figcaption>Long-legged Fly \/ The Pepper Garden \/ 2022-06-18<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Long-legged flies are not garden pests, and may even be helpful.  These were very small at around 5mm, and it was quite a challenge to get a picture with both of them, and in focus!  However, there something else in the garden with them.  It was an even smaller fly that I would estimate at 2-3mm, (possibly also Dolichopodidae), which I lost track of and was unable to photograph.  Sad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolichopodidae, or the long-legged flies, are a large family of &#8220;true flies&#8221; with more than 7,000 described species. Or so says wikipedia. They also tend to have beautiful metallic colors. These two were spotted on the pepper plants in my garden. I believe they were involved in a mating ritual or territorial dispute. The one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/06\/20\/dolichopodidae\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dolichopodidae&#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":[149,16],"tags":[151,152,150],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dolichopodidae","category-insects","tag-flies","tag-long-legged","tag-peppers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcrandall.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}