{"id":119,"date":"2005-06-08T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/06\/08\/flower-fly\/"},"modified":"2006-07-26T16:51:41","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T23:51:41","slug":"flower-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/06\/08\/flower-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flower flies are members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sel.barc.usda.gov\/diptera\/syrphid\/syrphgen.htm\">Syrphid Fly Family (Syrphidae)<\/a>. Many species of flower flies have a superficial resemblance to wasps, but unlike wasps, these flies do not sting, and their wasp-like appearance is merely a protective ruse to keep potential predators away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/June\/flower-fly.jpg\" alt=\"Flower Fly in the Syrphid Fly Family (Syrphidae)\" title=\"Flower Fly in the Syrphid Fly Family (Syrphidae)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These beneficial insects are important pollinators of many species of native, flowering plants. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/1105\/fallugia-paradoxa-apache-plume\/\">Apache Plume (Fallugia paradoxa)<\/a> flowers are very popular with flower flies, and these flies appear to be this native shrub&#8217;s major pollinator.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/June\/Apache-Plume.jpg\" alt=\"Apache Plume (Fallugia paradoxa) flower with a Flower Fly (Syrphidae)\" title=\"Apache Plume (Fallugia paradoxa) flower with a Flower Fly (Syrphidae)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flower flies are members of the Syrphid Fly Family (Syrphidae). Many species of flower flies have a superficial resemblance to wasps, but unlike wasps, these flies do not sting, and their wasp-like appearance is merely a protective ruse to keep potential predators away. These beneficial insects are important pollinators of many species of native, flowering&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/06\/08\/flower-fly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-invertebrates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}