{"id":7041,"date":"2019-07-31T18:41:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T18:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=7041"},"modified":"2019-08-01T18:34:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:34:51","slug":"a-marvellous-hoverfly-with-a-semi-transparent-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/31\/a-marvellous-hoverfly-with-a-semi-transparent-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"A Marvellous Hoverfly with a semi-transparent middle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Hoverfly
This hoverfly has a middle that lets light through as it flies, and orangey and black bands on its wings that line up with its pellucid middle and black bottom, giving it a strongly banded wasplike appearance despite (to us) being obviously a Dipteran fly. Probably enough to make it a successful Batesian mimic!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For a moment I glimpsed the brilliant indigo of a Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens<\/em>), just near Gunnersbury Triangle’s picnic meadow. It was the very first sighting of that species in the reserve: a bit surprising, as it’s a species of slow-flowing rivers. It does occasionally frequent lakes, so perhaps there’s a population near the artificial waterfall over in Chiswick Business Park? I’d better go and have a look!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a moment I glimpsed the brilliant indigo of a Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens), just near Gunnersbury Triangle’s picnic meadow. It was the very first sighting of that species in the reserve: a bit surprising, as it’s a species of slow-flowing rivers. It does occasionally frequent lakes, so perhaps there’s a population near the artificial … Continue reading A Marvellous Hoverfly with a semi-transparent middle<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[157,1493,712,78,1492],"class_list":["post-7041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-banded-demoiselle","tag-calopteryx-splendens","tag-gunnersbury-triangle","tag-hoverfly","tag-leucozona-lucorum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7045,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions\/7045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}