{"id":29375,"date":"2020-08-13T12:24:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T19:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29375"},"modified":"2020-08-14T01:59:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T08:59:29","slug":"robberfly-mating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29375","title":{"rendered":"Robber fly mating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are two more pictures of mating insects &#8212; well, it is that time of year. These are robber flies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Robber fly, also known as an assassin fly, is large and a powerful flyer. Its name reflects the fly&#8217;s aggressive predation: it feeds on other insects captured in flight. It has been a decade since I watched a robber fly feasting on a captured bee.<\/p>\n<p>This interaction was more convivial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Robber flies mating. I think that the female is on top.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29376\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/robberfly200812bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A view from the other side showing the interlocking abdomens. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29377\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/robberfly200812as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here are two more pictures of mating insects &#8212; well, it is that time of year. These are robber flies.\u00a0 A Robber fly, also known as an assassin fly, is large and a powerful flyer. Its name reflects the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29375\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29375"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29390,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375\/revisions\/29390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}