{"id":4728,"date":"2016-07-03T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T09:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2016-07-03T09:06:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T09:06:57","slug":"soldier-fly-miniature-glory-in-green-and-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/03\/soldier-fly-miniature-glory-in-green-and-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier Fly: Miniature Glory in Green and Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4729\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4729\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Male-Green-and-Gold-Soldier-Fly-Chloromyia-formosa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4729 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Male-Green-and-Gold-Soldier-Fly-Chloromyia-formosa-891x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Male Green and Gold Soldier Fly Chloromyia formosa\" width=\"474\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Male-Green-and-Gold-Soldier-Fly-Chloromyia-formosa-891x1024.jpg 891w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Male-Green-and-Gold-Soldier-Fly-Chloromyia-formosa-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Male-Green-and-Gold-Soldier-Fly-Chloromyia-formosa-768x883.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Male green and gold Soldier Fly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chloromyia formosa<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This little fly, seemed quite unassuming until I held it in the sunlight, and it sparkled iridescent, its thorax metallic green, its hairy abdomen gold. It is a male soldier fly (Stratiomyidae), a Dipteran as you can see from the club-like halteres in place of the hind wings. Its name is <em>Chloromyia formosa<\/em>, &#8220;the beautiful green fly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The book says the name soldier fly comes probably from the bright colours, like 18th century uniforms; the flies are not aggressive, but &#8220;often sluggish&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little fly, seemed quite unassuming until I held it in the sunlight, and it sparkled iridescent, its thorax metallic green, its hairy abdomen gold. It is a male soldier fly (Stratiomyidae), a Dipteran as you can see from the club-like halteres in place of the hind wings. Its name is Chloromyia formosa, &#8220;the beautiful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/03\/soldier-fly-miniature-glory-in-green-and-gold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soldier Fly: Miniature Glory in Green and Gold<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[1066,1065],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-chloromyia-formosa","tag-soldier-fly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4730,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/4730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}